Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa last week tinsel decorations stretched across the main streets, and in Oklahoma City shoppers shivered against the cold. Outside the cities and towns, over stick-straight highways and the winding side roads, fast automobiles and trucks sped on late-night runs from close-to-the-border cities in Missouri and Texas. Artfully dodging police prowl cars, they slipped into Tulsa and Oklahoma City bringing bootlegged Scotch at $7 a fifth, vodka at $5.50 and gin at $5. Admiring the tinsel, feeling the cold, buying the whisky (in gift decanters), Oklahomans knew that the Christmas season was in full swing...
...Cold-numbed fingers and fumbles sent scores soaring on the nation's football fields. Iowa's Rose Bowl-bound Big Ten champions whipped Notre Dame. 48-8. Yale rolled to its first official Ivy League title by trouncing Harvard 42-14. Oklahoma's Sooners, still looking for a suitable opponent, smothered Nebraska 54-6 for their 39th successive victory. Tennessee stayed with Oklahoma on the unbeaten list with a 20-7 win over Kentucky...
...Navajos are not the only lucky Indians; lease payments to other tribes are also skyrocketing. In 1951 Indians got $13 million from oil and gas leases. Last year their income soared to $41 million and is still climbing fast. Oklahoma's Osage tribe alone took in some $11 million last year, split it into $7,000 packets for the holders of "head rights," i.e., ownership shares of reservation land. Other tribes, such as Montana's Crow and Blackfeet, Colorado's Utes and Utah's Uintah-Ourays, turn all funds over to tribal councils for community projects...
...favored, but behind a partisan crowd which constantly booed the Blue, the Tigers won, 13 to 9. The "Hate Yale" pennants had built up a great deal of resentment at New Haven, and last Saturday the Elis could have taken on anyone-as some dreamers have said, even Oklahoma...
...will see substantial increases. It may be the second quarter of 1957 before they get to the eastern areas." Another top rate-making group, the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters (Aetna Casualty, Travelers, U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty), had already tipped its hand with a request for a 23% increase in Oklahoma...