Sentences with phrase «texas oil town»

The photograph is one of 500 made in a tiny Texas oil town.

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Odessa is similar to Midland, it's another Southwest Texas town where the local economy is powered by the energy sector, specifically oil.

Loyal Cajuns claim that Lafayette is the fastest - growing town in the whole U.S.. Its proximity to both the oil fields of East Texas and the Louisiana Gulf Coast makes it an ideal nesting place for the sales and administrative offices of oil companies.

Confronting Cancer at an Early Age Allison grew up in the small oil town of Alice, Texas, the youngest of three brothers.

The holiday trio, all presented on 35 mm, include: Magnificent Obsession, Sirk's dazzling drama about a reckless playboy who finds his life entwined with that of the woman whose husband's death he caused; Written on the Wind, a visually lush melodrama about a Texas oil magnate's downfall at the hands of his alcoholic son and wanton daughter; and All That Heaven Allows, a heartbreaking examination of love and class taboos in small - town America in the 1950s.

His white Chaparrals — built in the remote oil town of Midland, Texas, with covert support from General Motors R&D and tested on Hall's private Rattlesnake Raceway — were the most inventive road - racing cars of the»60s.

The guest house is furnished with a fun vintage Hawaiian flare, including a 1930's vintage rattan living room set we found and shipped all the way from a small Texas town and original oil paintings by local Hana artists.

These full scale sculptures are inspired by mid 20th century oil pumps the artist discovered in Electra, a boarded - up town once famous for being the pump jack capital of Texas.

Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico, near the Louisiana border.

Robert Rauschenberg's art and life were always open to the world, but his pursuit of interconnectedness and his refusal to accept conventional boundaries put him at odds both with authority and Port Arthur, the oil refinery town in Texas where he was brought up.

Oil and gas is big business in Texas, which passed a law this year that prevents towns and cities from banning fracking.

There were more than 30 cities and towns in Texas that ran out of water this past spring plus agricultural damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars due to immense water shortages, and yet the oil & gas industry has been throwing many millions of dollars at misinformation campaigns wherever local resistance to fracking has developed.

On Friday, the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which brings Canadian crude oil from Illinois to Texas, ruptured, leaking at least 80,000 gallons of oil into the Central Arkansas town of Mayflower.