Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly had they finished their schooling at Exeter and Yale when they started wildcatting for themselves. In partnership with Stepbrother Charles Urschel Jr., they operated Slick Oil Co., struck it lucky in south Texas and in Mississippi. Tom Slick Jr. branched out. He got dozens of patents on gadgets he invented, everything from fishhooks to oilfield equipment; he ran an experimental Hereford breeding farm, launched a frozen-food locker. When war came, he went to work for the Federal Government on oil jobs, went into the Navy and is now on his way home from Japan to aid the latest...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...
...After that," said young Slick, "things really began to move fast...
Seafood & Vegetables. He hired 35 ex-Army flyers as pilots, promising them also a share of profits; showed oil companies how rigs could be broken down and air-freighted in six-ton (C46 capacity) lots. The oil companies are ready to sign contracts when Slick gives the word. He lined up cargoes of vegetables, seafood, etc. to be flown north, merchandise to be flown back to Texas stores...
...till last week did the new company get around to incorporating formally. At a meeting in the Slick Oil Co. offices in San Antonio's 21-story ,Milam Building, Earl Slick was elected president, Charlie Urschel Jr., treasurer. Tom will probably be vice president. Total capitalization: $1,000,000, almost all put up by the Slick and Urschel families...