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If it seemed like a belated Christmas to Moye, it was all in the day's work for Humble's 58-year-old, lawyer-trained President Hines Holt Baker of Houston. In the blue-chip game of oil, gambling on wildcats is part of his business. Wildcatting has...
At its best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund...
McGrath assured Senator Wiley that Schering would be put up for public sale next month. But what was the hurry anyway? Under OAP control, Aniline's sales had more than doubled (to $99 million last year), and assets of both companies had soared.
Some parts of the College's R.O.T.C. program have doubled in the last year, as 50 percent of the class of '55 joined units. The Air Corps branch led the increase as 235 freshmen, compared, to last year's 75 Yardlings, bolstered the Corps total to 440, 230 more men...
Norris' tactics paid off. In his regime, the Southern's freight volume doubled, its net jumped to $22 million. Norris also managed to cut the Southern's debt by $120 million, including $32 million owed to the RFC which he had vowed he would pay off "dollar...