Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Federal Detention Headquarters one day last week, top-ranking U.S. Communist Robert G. Thompson, 38, stood in the lunch line three days before he was due to go to trial for his two-year flight from a 1949 conspiracy conviction (TIME, Sept. 7). Suddenly a fellow-prisoner behind him raised a length of lead pipe and brought it down twice on Thompson's head. Thompson slumped to the floor, bloody and unconscious...
...Yugoslavia as an opponent of Marshal Tito's Communist regime. His plea for sanctuary was refused for lack of supporting evidence. In custody, he had tried drastic measures, including slashing his wrists with a razor, to prolong his stay. As prison officials figured it, Pavlovich had attacked Thompson in an attempt to get at least a long U.S. jail sentence before a waiting Yugoslav ship took him home...
...Thompson replies: "You've never seen any shortage of oil," and argues that his chief concern is to avoid waste, not keep up prices. Once oil is brought up, some of it is lost through evaporation, handling and leakage. So says Thompson: "The best place to store oil until you need it is in God's reservoir...
Chaos in East Texas. To support his case, Thompson points to the once chaotic state of oil production and marketing. The Texas commission was set up by" a legislative act in 1891 to regulate railroad rates and transportation; soon it assumed other regulatory powers. But not much attention was paid to the state's oil reserves until 1930, when the huge East Texas oilfield blew in and upset the price structure of world petroleum...
...firm hand was needed to keep Texas from drowning in oil, and Thompson seemed the man for the job. The youngest lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F. during World War I, he returned to practice law in Amarillo and earned a reputation as a rugged in-fighter when he was elected mayor of Amarillo in 1929. When he was appointed to a vacancy on the commission in June 1932, the price of crude oil had collapsed, down from $1.10 to iof/ a barrel. Although engineers had warned that withdrawal of more than 400,000 bbls. a day would soon kill...