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Word: tulsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little attention. Then the rig's attendants began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. Surprised, they capped the hole, turned the oil well over to Tulsa County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Waite Phillips is a jut-jawed, beetle-browed Oklahoma oiligarch who likes portmanteau words based on his name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Philophile | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Jack H. James of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Central High School; Weld Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Freshmen Selected For '43 Union Committee; Will Run Class Events, Union Activities | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...Tulsa, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Tulsa, Okla., Rosanner Speights, 66, married Ulysses Grant Sisney, 90. It was her seventh marriage, his fourth. Said the bride: "A preacher once asked me why I got married so much. I told him the Good Lord kept taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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