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...sudden, sharp rise in oil prices inflamed all sorts of problems, increasing government controls, intensifying nationalism and calling into question the future of free economies. People were gripped with the fear that events had overtaken their ability?or their government's ability?to cope. Otherwise sober men spoke of extreme solutions: repudiation of international debts, massive currency devaluations, the suspension of parliamentary government, even military intervention in the producing countries...
Carry Nation. After a brief decline, Wichita boomed again in the late 1880s, this time as a grain market and milling center. During harvest, carts and wagons loaded with wheat lined its streets in columns ten blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...
...colonial virtues of "use it up, wear it out; make it do, or do without" are back in style. Metalworking, canning, weaving and bread baking are becoming the sober and necessary pursuits of the common citizen...
...publisher's sober side appealed to Wichita's pillars, it was his maverick streak that helped attract a young and capable staff to the Sun. Editorial Consultant Richard Crocker, 36, who oversees a stable of seven reporters, is on leave from his editing job at the Washington Post. Investigative Reporter Randy Brown, 34, contributed to the Omaha Sun's Pulitzer-prizewinning exposé of Boys' Town. Former Beacon Copy Chief Les Anderson, 25, was lured away from the Ridder operation along with other talented but disgruntled writers. "I was turning into a vegetable," he says. "There...
...showed no difficulty in talking. Propped up in bed, he discussed Ford's upcoming visit to Japan and the diplomatic travels of Henry Kissinger. At one point, Ford asked Nixon: "Did you have a good night?" Nixon replied: "None of the nights are too good." A sober Ford emerged from the visit to tell newsmen: "Obviously, he's a very sick man. But I think he's coming along well...