Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haralson L. Hunt, 62, of Dallas. Probably the richest in oil income, reputedly worth $263 million, Hunt is tall, solidly built, poker-faced. He is passionately publicity-shy, has had only one known picture taken of him (see cut), walks the streets unrecognized...
Where was Glenn McCarthy going? Houstonians say: "He's going to kill himself, go bankrupt, or get to be the richest man on earth. You figure out which...
Only their bankers know who the richest Texans are. But these would be on anyone's list...
...Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...
...locked drawer in his office safe. As deputy mayor of Jersey City, he sat in a seat once warmed by one of Boss Frank Hague's most trusted henchmen. Last week, rummaging through a filing cabinet, he found a key that unlocked the drawer. Inside he found the richest souvenir yet of Boss Hague's corrupt and efficient regime: six bound volumes labeled either "For" or "Against" and containing, on hundreds of pages of legal foolscap, the names of every home owner in Jersey City...