Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bagpiper Leigh Cross '51, who has never been in Scotland although he claims that he "has always been interested in Scotch music," will not be the only innovation in the musical offerings this afternoon. The Freshman Texan's University debut will be shared with that of J. Rosson Overcash '49, who blows the drillmaster's whistle for the first time...
Democratic leader Rayburn chilled talk of a House investigation. Belligerently, the Texan told the chamber that if any such effort developed he would try to block and delay all other legislation...
...this time of year, it was oddly quiet in the blue-grass country of Kentucky. As a matter of fact, there had not been much talk about the wonders of homebred hay-burners since an upstart Texan named Assault romped off with the 1946 Derby. Now a fresh crop of upstarts was taking dead aim on the 1947 Derby target...
...Texan who didn't think so was Dallas' yippy, yeasty John William Carpenter, 65, the state's prime booster. He had built the state's first power & light company (which ran only at night "except for one day a week for ironing"), became president of its second largest one in 1927. Now he had a hand in more than 42 different enterprises, ranging from the Jack and Mule Breeders Association to river & harbor improvements. But his greatest concern for the past 25 years has been that "every bolt, every nut, every spool of wire...
...example of this new type of Texan is Dallas' Glenn McCarthy, a brawny oilman who started out as a roughneck in an oilfield. He made a fortune wildcatting, added to it with a string of oil companies. One of the few to foresee the revolution a-coming, McCarthy poured his oil profits into a natural gas company, set out to sell it to industry. Six months ago, he started a $3,000,000 plant to produce chemicals, hoped to show the way for other Texans to follow...