Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Working the post-season game pitch for all it is worth, the Shriners put on two classic all-star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates...
...Southwest oil industry, will pay $34 million for Dallas' American Liberty Oil Co. Coming on top of Petrofina's recent purchase of Panhandle Oil Corp. (TIME, June 25), deal will pump American Petrofina's assets up to $90 million, including 500 retail outlets in Texas and Oklahoma...
...popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth $6 billion...
Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...Oklahoma! (Magna...