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...cotton growers, oilmen and cattlemen of the Lower Rio Grande, it was as historic a moment as the coming of the railroads. Through the waterway, freight barges could be towed all the way from Brownsville, Tex. to Florida-1,116 miles -without exposure to the open sea. Cried one Texan: "A shining strand linking together those jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gulf...
...lanky Texan who plays Bud Ager in top match of the day, has a steady all-around style that has made him almost unbeatable this spring. But Ager has won his last three matches and Coach Barnaby calls him "as improved as any player I've seen in a long time...
Ricardo De Blanco, a Texan with lavish tastes and enough oil wells to gratify them, was quite pleased with the diamond-buckled gold belt which Dallas' Linz Bros, had sold him "to wear with slacks." But his pet grey poodle, Toto, was troubled: his unruly hair kept tumbling into his eyes. Could Linz Bros, make Toto happy, too? It could, indeed. Last week, having fixed Toto's bangs with a set of silver barrettes (and a $250 diamond-studded white-gold set for Sundays), Linz Bros, was designing a Western-style dog collar for De Blanco...
...Road. Linz Bros, does not wait for business to step up to its horseshoe-shaped gem counter, but goes out after it with salesmen who range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been...
...years, crinkle-eyed Texan Cliff Mooers has collected a wide assortment of animals ranging from Alaskan huskies (he was a gold prospector in 1913) to mynah birds, flamingos, monkeys and penguins. After World War I, in which he served as a flyer, Cliff Mooers went into the oil business, made some fortunate strikes and became president of the Shasta Oil Co. That gave him a chance to do something else he wanted to do: he established a deer sanctuary on his Texas ranch where he ran everything from mule deer to rare muntjac barking-deer imported from India...