Word: tulsa
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Kennedy began investing in oil in the late 1940s, principally to gain the tax break supplied by the oil depletion allowance. Kennedy's original partner, Tulsa Petroleum Engineer Raymond F. Kravis, remains a co-investor and an adviser on operations. He describes the Kennedy investment as "a big small company," amounting to some $10 million and producing an annual gross income of about...
WILLIAM DONNELLY Tulsa, Okla...
...Role in Space. The advent of the new ships could turn many inland cities-Memphis, Nashville, Tulsa and Little Rock, for example-into ports where ocean cargo can be handled. Even towns on shallow rivers could get a crack at foreign commerce, since the average draft of a barge is only eight feet. Tulsa officials already plan to spend $20 million in the next two years to build a port to be named Catoosa, from which they expect to ship oil field machinery destined for Europe. Arkansas grain distributors, who export 40% of the 100 million bushels of grain that...
...religious and educational" organization. Hargis is appealing the ruling, but meanwhile has given his benefactors an alternative avenue of giving by separately incorporating the Church of the Christian Crusade, which has several thousand members and is headquartered in the Crusade's modern, flat-topped "cathedral" in Tulsa. So that no one will mistake his intent, he repeatedly tells his followers that "we are a church. We are a religious organization...
Striped-Pants Pansies. Hargis continued to stress the religious theme throughout the Eleventh Annual National Convention of the Christian Crusade in Tulsa earlier this month. He told the delegates that "conservative politics without a real alliance in Christ is in vain," and preached that "the hope of the Christian is in the Second Coming of Christ and nothing else, not a political victory, not even a military victory." But the choice of convention speakers left some doubt about the sincerity of such protestations...