Sentences with phrase «texas oil tycoon»
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«Skibo's membership is 40 % American, many of whom are business leaders, CEOs, and oil tycoons largely from Texas, Boston, and New York,» the Club told Business Insider.
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For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination of emerging Texas oil and natural gas tycoons, billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.
Jim Hall Jim Hall had the gambling heart of a Texas wildcatter, the hefty bankroll of an oil tycoon, and a precocious imagination tempered by a degree in mechanical engineering from Caltech.
No, I didn't focus on big oil because I wanted to embrace my Texas birthplace and do the oil tycoon thing.
He was a successful Oil Tycoon when he started Jaco Oil in Texas.
This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.