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...five original companies backing the line, headed by Texan Clint Murchison, invested some $15 million in stock at the insiders' price of $8 a share. These holdings are now worth $43 a share, or $82 million. Influential speculators got big chunks of the $37.5 million public issue, which is now worth $161 million. Fantastic speculative profits were also made in three companies set up to gather or distribute the gas Trans-Canada will bring. Vancouver Oilman Ralph K. Farris, son of a Liberal Senator and founder of the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth...
...even approved the President's request for an economic-development fund of indefinite duration, thus setting a new pattern for economic development funds (TIME, June 3). When the measure reached the Senate, both Minority Leader William Fife Knowland and Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson quickly endorsed it. Said Texan Johnson: "This is the kind of philosophy that will get other nations off their backs-and off our taxpayers' backs...
WILDCATTER Glenn McCarthy agreed to sell his last major oil and gas property, a 970,000-acre concession in Bolivian hinterlands, to Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., Union Oil & Gas Corp. of La., Murphy Corp. and Monsanto's Lion Oil division. Texan McCarthy lost heavily on Bolivian wildcatting, did not have enough funds to market oil after he found it. He will be lucky to break even on deal to give him $1,500,000 outright, another $1,500,000 if group can market...
...budget issue, the behavior of a large segment of the Democrats in Congress has been disgraceful. Perhaps the actions of Lyndon Johnson and the Southern Democrats might have been predicted as easily as those of Knowland and the hard-shell Republicans. But in following his conservative Texan instincts, Johnson has punched holes in one of the more important Democratic balloons--that is, its representation of itself as the party of idealism. Cynics will maintain that very few people vote Democratic for reasons of ideals--we all pride ourselves on being hard-headed and practical. But to a great many people...
...your article on Milton Cross and the Metropolitan Opera [April 29): the "Texan who had one of the plush seats sent to him so he could 'listen in style' " happened to be me. While in New York in 1937, I read that the Metropolitan Opera House was being renovated. Mr. Brown, the building superintendent, let me pick out the seat that I wanted, and had it sent to me. Its back has the original upholstery put there...