Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil Rights? Texan Johnson did not mention certain other prospects for a new Congress that might think it had to live up to its liberal billing: automatic death for any natural gas bill, possible reduction of the Texas-cherished 27½% depletion allowance on oil income, an end to conservative and Southern hopes to limit the Supreme Court's powers...
...gruff Texan, Smith has become a living legend in U.S. aviation. With the shrewd calculation of a gambler, the financial sagacity of a banker and the dedication of a monk, he has propelled American Airlines into first place in the industry-and in the process has done more than any other man to improve the service and standards of U.S. airlines. Says United Air Lines President W. A. Patterson: "There's no man in the industry I respect more-and you usually don't say nice things about competitors...
Sweeping Out. Texan Florence can now compete for loans far from home, perhaps even in New York, where, he concedes, he was born. (His father left that outlandish birthplace to open an East Texas grocery when Florence was an infant.) Raised in the hamlet of Rusk, Florence began by sweeping out the local bank for $15 monthly, at 24 became president of another tiny bank in nearby Alto and later the town's mayor. When a customer asked him to handle a $40,000 purchase of stock in Dallas' Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Florence got Guaranty to deposit...
...investigators left quietly. But in Washington, the CRC met and unanimously voted to hold hearings in Montgomery next month on voting discrimination in various Alabama counties, not just Macon. Since CRC's six members include a Virginian, a Texan and a Floridian, the unanimity was striking. Between the lines of its announcement, CRC hinted that it might, if necessary, use its statutory subpoena power to make balky registrars open up their files...
...plains he has published 41 novels, sold 20 to the movies, done an additional 54 screen plays, 90 TV scripts and written 350 short stories. The fact that he owns 15% of Wells Fargo does not keep him from writing scripts for other oaters (e.g., Desilu's The Texan) for the truth is, he thinks the market is still too small. "There really aren't enough TV westerns," says Gruber. "Now there are 35 hours of prime time a week on seven channels-that's 245 hours of prime time and westerns only take up 18 hours...