Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Gladewater, Tex. one night last week, a 300-ft. mushroom of smoke and flame hung in the sky, casting dull yellow highlights on the charred boles of nearby pine trees, lighting the sweaty faces of many men. Sinclair Oil Co.'s No. 1 Cole well had gushed in, caught fire, killed nine workmen, belched flame for eight days (TIME, May 11). Suddenly came an ear-splitting explosion heard 15 mi. away in Longview. The fiery mushroom lost its stem, swirled up into the night, vanished...
...Leming, Tex. 11-year-old Merle Springer had most of her clothes torn off and was stabbed 33 times with a penknife, so that she died in a ditch only 300 yd. from her home. A mammoth posse was organized last week to scour the countryside for her assailant...
...Alexander Black MacDonald of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, $1,000 for the year's best reportorial work: helping unearth Lawyer A. D. Payne's murder of his wife by blowing her to bits in his automobile in Amarillo, Tex. (TIME...
...next month: Wilmer Allison, member of two previous Davis Cup teams; towheaded, 19-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr.; strong, swart Francis X. Shields, 20. J. B. Adoue Jr. is the non-playing captain. He was picked because he is an experienced player and because he lives in Dallas, Tex., so that it will be easy and cheap for him to get to Mexico. National Champion John Doeg was not picked because he announced that he could not take time off from business (advertising) to play in Davis Cup matches this year...
...building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman of the Committee of the Royal Society of Arts for the Preservation of Ancient Cottages...