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...Oklahoma City...
...Labor and Big Business and Big Education and Big Government are all jittery. "There are for the time being power vacuums at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue," says Oklahoma's James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee in the expiring 98th Congress. He is debating whether to seek an unprecedented third term in that critical but trying position...
...business built largely on trust, a little wildness can be highly contagious. Consider the case of William G. Patterson, the highflying, unorthodox executive vice president of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank. While negotiating million-dollar deals in restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just...
...where he had parked his car, he looked up and saw a dark red, liver-colored sky, full of ores and oxides and particulates. The droughts of last summer had been followed by the winds of November. Although Allan did not know it, he was seeing the State of Oklahoma blowing past Chicago, traveling east. The Dust Bowl had begun...
...states were: Colorado, Georgia, lowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Okiahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin...