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On his East Texas ranch, Clint Murchison, Jr., the oilman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys, plants ten thousand strawberry plants and ten thousand pine seedlings.
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The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
They are typically set in predominantly male worlds with traditionally masculine archetypes at the center: cowboys, ranchers, intelligence operatives, mobsters, fixers, oilmen.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
The energy company, once known for being founded by legendary oilman Armand Hammer, is Berkshire’s sixth-biggest equity holding.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
Shortly before midnight on April 15, 2007, Barabas, Emanuel Nicolescu and Alexandru Lucian Nicolescu, wearing masks and brandishing knives and facsimile firearms, entered a home in Kent owned by Anne Bass, the ex-wife of Texas oilman Sid Bass.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Dec. 2024
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The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
They are typically set in predominantly male worlds with traditionally masculine archetypes at the center: cowboys, ranchers, intelligence operatives, mobsters, fixers, oilmen.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
The energy company, once known for being founded by legendary oilman Armand Hammer, is Berkshire’s sixth-biggest equity holding.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
Shortly before midnight on April 15, 2007, Barabas, Emanuel Nicolescu and Alexandru Lucian Nicolescu, wearing masks and brandishing knives and facsimile firearms, entered a home in Kent owned by Anne Bass, the ex-wife of Texas oilman Sid Bass.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Oilman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oilman. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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