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...putting to work many of the 39,000 unemployed auto workers. In turn, the steel and tire industries are heading for a good year, and the prosperity will trickle down to the rest of the region's economy. Said Eugene Swearingen, chairman of the Bank of Oklahoma in Tulsa, Okla.: "I'm relaxed and optimistic...
...Journal, Providence Bulletin, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Times-Union, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. In the South, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Nashville Banner, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Times Herald. In the Midwest, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, Tulsa (Okla.) World, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the West, Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal. San Diego Union. Portland's Oregonian...
...long battle with Tidewater management and Standard Oil (New Jersey), which dominated Tidewater, Getty by 1937 had won control of Mission Corp., a holding company with substantial shares in Tidewater and Skelly Oil (Getty did not win numerical control of Tidewater until 1951). During World War II, he ran Tulsa's Spartan Aircraft Co., a Skelly subsidiary, forcing supervisors to sit behind a huge eight-ball if they did not meet production schedules...
...Tulsa, Okla...
...Hargis announced that he was "led of the Lord to come back to Tulsa." Since then he has been flamboyantly establishing a new base. He has bought a six-story building for his downtown headquarters, though the city has refused him permission to put his name atop it in lights 85 ft. long. And he signed up Anti-Communist Dan Lyons, who left the Jesuit priesthood to get married (TIME, Sept. 29), to edit the weekly newspaper, which again is lavishing coverage on such events as Hargis' "hero's welcome" in South Korea...