Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa, J. C. Hunter, president of the Ralph Talbot theater chain, took matters into his own hands. To boost lagging business on 20th Century-Fox's farce railroad western A Ticket to Tomahawk, he renamed it The Sheriff's Daughter, and his box office boomed. Last week Fox officials grudgingly admitted that Theaterman Hunter might have a good point. The studio gave all exhibitors permission to substitute the more inviting title for A Ticket to Tomahawk...
...Tulsa: Howard McEwen Maher, M.B.A. '31; 3218 Whittler Station, Tulsa, Okla...
...Tulsa, Okla...
...went into aviation. He started out at 17 to sell insurance, later branched out into Oklahoma real estate, by 1927 had already made a fortune. Then he put up $10,000 to finance a one-horse airline which operated one single-engine Stinson cabin plan from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, 116 miles away...
...Daniels had shipped along some California hay to mix with the Kentucky brand, so that the chestnut colt would feel as much at home as possible. Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden had flown in from the West Coast to ride him in the seven-furlong prep race. The competition included Tulsa Oilman Tom Gray's Oil Capitol-Kentucky Derby favorite (5-2) and one of the best of the three-year-old crop by anybody's standards...