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Oklahoma's burly, scrappy Robert Samuel Kerr is a Democratic multimillionaire (Kerr-McGee Oil) who snap-shoots from the hip when he hears a rustling in the brush. Indiana's jowled Homer Earl Capehart is a Republican millionaire (Capehart radio-TV) who usually prefers to wait for another day. Last week Snap-Shooter Bob pressed Hesitant Homer too far, and the Senate echoed with high-priced debate. Subject: Dwight Eisenhower's brains...
...reason why U.S. women outlive men by an average of four years is "our curious cult of manliness," wrote Dr. Lemuel C. McGee, medical director of the Hercules Powder Co., in Today's Health. "The practice of manliness has become a curse-a lethal curse. The American male has been indoctrinated with the philosophy that he must live, work and play at a dizzy pace . . . Whether such behavior is necessary or desirable is rarely considered. The man can take it! He must show others that he can take it and disregard any limitations of his mind or body...
...into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...
Phillips knew what it was doing. With plenty of cash McGee soon had a string of wells in the rich-paying Gulf Coast zone in Louisiana. Then Kerr-McGee started operating on its own in an area where few oilmen had yet ventured: the Louisiana tidelands. Says McGee: "It looked better to us than staying on land, where the first-class spots were already leased and drilled. Some said it took courage. Others just said we were foolish...
Courage or crapshooter's luck, the gamble paid off. In 1947, in 18 ft. of water ten miles off Louisiana, Kermac brought in the first big tidelands well out of sight of land and developed by crews living on the rig. What's more, Oilman McGee & Co. did it cheaply. Where most big companies planned huge, $1,000,000 floating platforms with rig, crew quarters and space for drilling supplies, Kermac's equipment cost only $250,000. The platform was barely big enough for the drilling rig: floating tenders moored alongside housed the crew and stored...