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...Alabama, in search of oil since 1870, sank some 200 wells without success before the first producer came in last February, in Choctaw County, 75 miles northwest of Mobile. By last week there were three small producers, and almost every acre in 15 counties was under lease to big oil companies...
...week's end Captain John J. Cronin, the deceptively delicate-looking commanding officer of the Bureau, was directing a meticulous search which had spread across the whole...
...each one in the boat we'd empty his pockets and search for identification. One was named Thomas. He had a canteen on his belt and a map in his pocket, both with that name on it. John Thomas. Wilson, H.W., had an identification tag around his neck. He also had a billfold with a picture of a girl, some foreign coins, a wrist watch, and a bottle opener...
...mere fronts for those who "in case of conflict put money and power ahead of human beings." By that definition he judged there are "undoubtedly several million" U.S. Fascists and "there are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful...
That night a transport plane noted a blazing fire high in the frontier mountains. Next morning General Wingate's air officer, Colonel Philip Cochran, U.S.A.A.F., sent out search planes which spotted burned-out wreckage on the mountainside. Last week ground searchers reached the spot and reported that all the occupants of the plane, including Orde Charles Wingate, one of the military geniuses of World War II, were dead...