Sentences with phrase «oil baron who»

And the Hammer Museum, founded by an oil baron who died without ensuring its finances, has been affiliated since 1994 with UCLA.

Based on true events and scripted by Rob McEveety, the film tells the story of an oil baron who gets into a destructive standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

The film centers on an unhinged oil baron who gets in a bruising standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm was poisoned by her company.

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He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds.

Not exact matches

Among those culpable industrialists, if Thomas's theory is true, is the family of the man who now signs his paychecks — Chiefs founder and owner Lamar Hunt, son of Texas oil baron H.L. Hunt.

Now these people aren't ordinary people, they are the higher echelon of campaign staff — the kind of people who can put together a successful ground operation, but for one reason or another these folks were left hanging in a lurch by the billionaire oil baron.

Which was, of course, a major treat for Mark Bridges, who's done the wardrobes for all of director Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, among them the disco porn business epic «Boogie Nights,» turn - of - the - last - century psycho oil baron drama «There Will Be Blood» and psychedelic era mystery «Inherent Vice.»

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No lily - white coin - flip to Plainview, he's also fascinatingly flawed, a false prophet who becomes an increasingly sore thorn in the oil baron's side.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

Those of us who have had to refer to Ballem's masterpiece, The oil and gas lease in Canada (now in its third edition) and his pioneering work on fiduciary duties in the 1963 Alberta Law Review, will likely not realize that he was also the author of fourteen novels (The Devil's Lighter, The Dirty Scenario, The Judas Conspiracy (reissued as Alberta Alone), The Moon Pool, Sacrifice Play, The Marigot Run, Oilpatch Empire, Death Spiral, The Barons, Manchineel,... [more]