Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irresponsible. Sammons and his staff have been threatened with lawsuits and physical violence, and have been offered everything from cash bribes and lavish gifts to orders for thousands of copies of the book, just for adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...
...mile rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...
...single block outstanding, from Cyrus S. Eaton's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (at a profit of $2,400,000 to the C. & O.). The friendly buyers were Clinton W. Murchison, 58, of Dallas, whom Texans proudly describe as "really a wheeler-dealer," and Sid W. Richardson, 62, of Fort Worth, often called the richest man in oil reserves...
...some to be greater than that of Texan H. L. Hunt, estimated at $500 million or more. He owns a Texas City refinery, a string of cattle ranches, a radio and television chain, a drugstore chain, and, with Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter, the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth...
...only did the Yardling relay team set a new record, but it won the freshman meet. The event is worth seven points to the winner; the score going into the race stood 36 to 32 for the freshmen. It would have been 37 to 31 in favor of Williston if Glenn Sisler, Captain Sigo Falk, and Pete Macky had not taken the medley relay, one event earlier...