Word: urschel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough-&-ready business savvy. Both were supplied largely by two brothers, dark-haired, studious Thomas Baker Slick Jr., 29, and sandy-haired, easygoing Earl Frates Slick, 25-Money & Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content to live on $10,000 a year apiece left them by their father, nor wait till they inherited the bulk of the $25,000,000 Slick fortune...
Hardly had they finished their schooling at Exeter and Yale when they started wildcatting for themselves. In partnership with Stepbrother Charles Urschel Jr., they operated Slick Oil Co., struck it lucky in south Texas and in Mississippi. Tom Slick Jr. branched out. He got dozens of patents on gadgets he invented, everything from fishhooks to oilfield equipment; he ran an experimental Hereford breeding farm, launched a frozen-food locker. When war came, he went to work for the Federal Government on oil jobs, went into the Navy and is now on his way home from Japan to aid the latest...
...till last week did the new company get around to incorporating formally. At a meeting in the Slick Oil Co. offices in San Antonio's 21-story ,Milam Building, Earl Slick was elected president, Charlie Urschel Jr., treasurer. Tom will probably be vice president. Total capitalization: $1,000,000, almost all put up by the Slick and Urschel families...
...with chronic symptoms that are hard to diagnose should be suspected of having chronic undulant fever. That is, if he has ever drunk unpasteurized milk, as who has not? This is the conclusion which two Indiana small-town doctors, Neal Davis of Lowell (pop. 1,450) and Dan L. Urschel of Mentone (pop. 730), reached independently after seeing many such cases. Nobody paid much attention to this mild form of undulant fever until Drs. Urschel and Davis began calling attention to it in the Indiana State Medical Association Journal...
...Urschel says that 48 out of 124 chronically ill patients had undulant fever (he uses skin tests as well as symptoms in diagnosis). The average chronic undulant fever patient had been sick three years, eight months. Both Drs. Urschel and Davis treat patients with undulant fever vaccine in small, gradually increasing injections, spread over several months; and both refuse to consider any patient cured, because relapses are fairly common...