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Last week, after a month as owners of the weekly Rangely News, the sisters incorporated and planned to stay awhile. Oilfield roughnecks were glad. Said a rigman: "They're good scouts . . . and they don't try to shake nobody down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boom Town Sisters | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Thin Man | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...food was only one Peró weapon. The Argentines were now ready to spend from $1 to $1½ billion to bring their war-worn economy up to date, and make it more self-sufficient. Peró wants machine tools, trucks, oilfield equipment, and engineering savvy to advance Argentina in the familiar pattern of totalitarian autarkic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Per | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...party's strongman is a onetime oilfield mechanic, stocky Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka (party name "Wies-law"), 41, who says: "We are carrying out a revolution. ... In the interests of democracy, order and also expediency, we must accommodate open vocal opposition. It will be much more dangerous if we suppress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...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 family venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Slick Brothers | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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