Word: oilfields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...
...been suckled with the sound of oil rigs in his ears; his father, an itinerant oilfield workman named William McCarthy, came to Spindletop as a driller, and Glenn was born there in 1907. One of his earliest memories concerns the great Gulf Coast hurricane of 1915. As the storm approached, the elder McCarthy galloped to the field in a two-wheeled gig; Glenn went with him and crouched in the roaring darkness as derrick after derrick crashed into wreckage...