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T. Cullen Davis. Thomas Cullen Davis (born September 22, 1933) is an American former oil tycoon who is best known for being acquitted of murder and attempted murder in two high-profile trials during the 1970s. At the time of his first trial, Davis was believed to be the wealthiest man to have stood trial for murder in the United States. First ...
Hunt was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, but lived most of his life in Dallas, Texas. [4] He was the son of Lyda Bunker and oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, who set up Placid Oil, once one of the biggest independent oil companies, [5] He had six siblings: Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007), H. L. Hunt III (1917–2005), Caroline Rose Hunt (1923–2018), Lyda Bunker Hunt (born and died in 1925), William ...
Glenn Herbert McCarthy (December 25, 1907 – December 26, 1988) was an American oil tycoon. The media often referred to him as "Diamond Glenn" and "The King of the Wildcatters ". McCarthy was an oil prospector and entrepreneur who owned many businesses in various sectors of the economy. McCarthy founded the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, which ...
An oil war is a conflict about petroleum resources, or their transportation, consumption, or regulation. The term may also refer generally to any conflict in a region that contains oil reserves or is geographically positioned in a location where an entity has or may wish to develop production or transportation infrastructure for petroleum ...
Clinton Manges (August 22, 1923 – September 23, 2010) was a controversial oil tycoon in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s.. Manges was born in Cement, Oklahoma.He began to amass his fortune in South Texas in the early 1970s, when he befriended Lloyd M. Bentsen, Sr., the father of U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and political boss George Parr, known as the "Duke of Duval."
Using the codes eases coordination and improves understanding during multiservice operations. The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel ...
Emma Summers. Emma Summers, from a 1901 newspaper article in The San Francisco Call about the "Oil Queen of California". Emma Summers and her mansion on Wilshire Boulevard. From Sunset magazine, 1911. Emma Summers (née McCutchen, 1858 – 1941) was an American oil tycoon in the 1890s and the early years of the twentieth century.
Erickson was born in 1896 in Brooklyn, New York State in the United States, the son of Swedish immigrants. [1] After working in the oilfields of Texas, Erickson decided to get a college degree and go to work in the oil business. [1] In order to start college and avoid the 1917 wartime draft, Erickson claimed to be seven years older than his ...