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...1920s he joined Galveston's W. L. Moody III, whose father was one of the world's richest men, in creating a mammoth oil, gas and sulphur empire. Cooking deals like 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...
...Champion. As Hopper gazed silently and intently at California, a 29-picture exhibition of his work opened with a Hopper-like absence of fanfare at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Being staged in one of the nation's richest repositories of native art, the Boston show underlined Hopper's place in a great and continuing tradition...
Undismayed, Booster Smith announced plans for a communications empire that would include newspapers, a weekly newsmagazine, a TV and radio chain, make Crowell-Collier "the biggest, richest and most influential publishing house in America." Last month, after announcing that Crowell-Collier was acquiring seven TV and radio stations, Smith was unable to raise the cash...
Died. Emil Georg Buehrle, 66, multimillionaire art collector and sole owner of Switzerland's vast armaments-making Oerlikon Machine Tool Works; of a heart attack; in Zurich. German-born Weapons-Maker Buehrle, reputedly Switzerland's richest man, got his firm blacklisted during World War II by peddling his 20-mm. antiaircraft gun to the Axis...
Properly governed, Columbia could develop in a relatively short time into one of the richest nations in South America. Irrigation and cheap electric power are all that would be needed to enable the marvelously fertile Cauca valley to supply food for at least the entire country. Then, once mechanization of agriculture has been achieved, largely untapped sources of oil, coal, and iron are sufficient to support the conversion of Colombia into a modern industrial state. Her greatest tragedy is that the capital she desperately needs for economic development is instead being used to support an oppressive dictatorship...