Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts failed, in part because bootleggers (estimated 1957 gross: $100 million) lavishly shared profits with any sheriffs and other officials who were of a mind to make trouble. Against this aged blend of piety and politics, James Howard Edmondson, red-haired (nicknamed "Nugget Head") young (32) county attorney from Tulsa, entered this year's Democratic primaries as an avowed Wet who proposed, if elected Governor, to call a quick special election for repeal...
H2Oil. In Tulsa, George Sharp drilled hopefully in his backyard for water, struck oil, moaned "Oh no," made plans to drill on down until he hit water, then case off a section of the well to keep...
Editors have an occupational weakness for striking holier-than-thou attitudes, especially on the subject of newspaper ethics. Last week the subject got a refreshingly candid airing from Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 46, editor of the Jones family's Tulsa Tribune and recently president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In a lecture at the University of Kansas, where he won the first certificate of editorial leadership awarded by the William Allen White Foundation, Jones said: "We often tell our readers only half-truths. We are constantly sweeping facts under the rugs...
...school nickname, "Dictionary Getty." After two years at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, and a year studying economics at Oxford, Paul took a world tour on a $250-a-month allowance from his parents. In 1914, at 21, Paul Getty arrived in Tulsa, Okla., ready for work. He began buying and selling oil leases with his father's backing (on a 30-70 split). In his first year he made $40.000, announced elatedly: "I will stay in Tulsa until I make a million dollars." By June 1916, just 19 months after...
...Tulsa Central High Pennsylvania