To drill for oil in Siberia, you have to overcome three things: the cold, the loneliness, and the Soviet bureaucrats.
Don Dixon ran Vernon Savings the way Romans ran orgies, equating excess with success, until his empire collapsed.
In the early eighties, some Dallas savings and loans reaped profits in real estate investments while land was flipped, appraisals were inflated, and property was developed. Now the land deals have flopped, property values are deflated, and there are empty buildings all over town. And some S&Ls are broke.
Four of the many small high-tech companies betting that they have the excitement, momentum, market, and business savvy to succeed where others have failed.
From his early days in Big Spring, Eugene Anderson wasn’t what he seemed; neither was the mysterious element he later claimed turned water into fuel.
Harding Lawrence was obsessed with making Braniff great. Maybe too obsessed.
