Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, quiet talks were actually going on only with Tulsa-based Cities Service, whose president, Charles Waidelich, had rushed from Oklahoma to a hotel suite at New York's Waldorf-Astoria for private meetings with Conoco's Bailey. Cities Service was seeking a merger for a reason surprisingly similar to Conoco's: to avert an attempted takeover of its Canadian oil and gas properties by another Canadian company, Nu-West Group Ltd., an Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres...
Southwest Airlines, one of the oldest of the new breed of carrier, was founded in 1971 as a strictly intrastate Texas operator. Now the line serves New Orleans, Tulsa and Albuquerque as well. Air Florida started out as an intrastate carrier, and has gone international. From its base in Miami, the line now serves Washington, New York, London, Amsterdam and Brussels...
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DIED. Roger Wheeler, 55, multimillionaire entrepreneur in oil, minerals, real estate and sporting ventures, also chairman and largest stockholder of the Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based computer and electronics firm with 1980 revenues of $186.5 million; of a gunshot to the head, fired at point-blank range by an unknown assailant, as he got into his car after a regular weekly golf game; in Tulsa. The owner of World Jai Alai in Miami and former owner of Hartford (Conn.) Jai Alai, Wheeler had testified publicly about alleged underworld involvement in the sport...
Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, who has proposed a Democratic alternative to the Reagan budget cuts, ran into criticism of reduced federal aid to education as he traveled through his conservative district, which includes Tulsa. At a breakfast with school administrators from the Tulsa area, Superintendent James Sutton attacked the cutbacks, and predicted: "We can probably survive for one year, but after that, our school district will be reduced to mediocrity, or worse...