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...open-necked shirt, standing 6 ft. 3 in. even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
Franklin William Olin stands six feet high, weighs 240 lb., and is one of the best known blackpowder men in the country. Last week Powderman Olin, in his 72nd year, put through a deal which once would have seemed incredible...
...longtime football coach, a coal dealer. On Jan. 22 the great Winchester Repeating Arms Co., whose stock (largely held by New Haven's Bennett family) was quoted at $3,000 a share during the War, passed into the control of a Federal receiver. Thus it was that last week Powderman Olin did not go to New Haven as a western manufacturer anxious to learn from Winchester, but as a munitions tycoon in his own right ready to buy and absorb a fallen rival...
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