Business
August 1, 1978
Trouble in Paradise
Resort hotels and luxury condominiums line the shore of South Padre, yet foot by foot, day by day, the island is washing away.
Business
Reporting and commentary on Texas businesses and the trends and innovation happening in our state
Business
April 30, 1978
Unfriendly Skies
Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.
Business
April 1, 1978
Daddy’s Money
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
Business
December 1, 1977
They’re Minding the Store
If you’re looking for Houston’s elite, forget the Petroleum Club; go to the produce center at Jamail’s.
Business
December 1, 1977
King of the Catalogs
Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Business
November 1, 1977
Word of the Profits
Move over Harold Robbons: religious books sell big.
Business
May 31, 1977
Diamonds Aren’t Forever
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
Business
May 31, 1977
Clothes Made the Man
Why Willie Farah is taking up slack—not slacks—these days.
Business
April 30, 1977
Catchy Coup
How to squeeze a multimillion-dollar business out of a ten-second radio jingle.
Business
April 30, 1977
The Wizard of Oz (Ret.)
Question: What goes on behind the closed doors of the stateÌs most elegant restaurant these days? Answer: Nothing.
Business
April 1, 1977
All Roads Lead From Roma
What’s good for marijuana is good for Starr County.
Business
April 1, 1977
Allah In the Family
In the middle of the booming Houston economy are some new movers and shakers.
Records
February 1, 1977
The Last Record Store
There’s a heaven for record collectors and it’s in the middle of West Texas.
Performance
December 1, 1976
Biz Kids
Balcones Fault is a show band with a head on its shoulders.
Business
November 1, 1976
Upwardly Mogul
The tale of the man who made Dallas a film industry capital is no shaggy-dog story.
Business
September 30, 1976
The Boomsday Book
Why Houston should read it and weep.
Business
August 31, 1976
Only the Loanly
There are five private banks left in Texas. Why?
Business
July 31, 1976
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Did you know there’s more difference between Fudgsicles and Popsicles than the taste? The taxman does.
Business
July 31, 1976
Let’s Make a Deal
When Dad Joiner signed away all his oil leases to H.L. Hunt, all the cards weren’t on the table. Some were still underground.
Business
April 30, 1976
Dealing
Dope sellers obey the law—of supply and demand.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1976
The Most Powerful Texans
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
Libations
March 1, 1976
Muscling In On Texas Beer
How Coors is setting out to conquer Texas.
Business
December 1, 1975
The Great Airline War
Will Texas International Airlines's “whiz kids” fizzle?! Will sexy Southwest conquer all?! Will Braniff lose its routes?!
Energy
April 30, 1975
Power Politics
How Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer.
Business
March 31, 1975
Laredo: Fuel’s Paradise
Everybody in Laredo is being excessively kind to Tony Sanchez, Sr., these days, quite a change from several years ago when Sanchez took in ten to twelve thousand a year selling office supply furniture and trading oil and gas leases on the side to help make ends meet. Kindest of
Business
March 31, 1975
The Most Dangerous Airports in Texas
Pray now, fly later.
Business
February 28, 1975
H. L. Hunt’s Long Goodbye
The strange legacy of the world’s richest man.
Business
December 1, 1974
There’s No Business like Snow Business
There’s money in them there hills.
Energy
November 1, 1974
The Lonely Search for Oil
Of doodlebugs, boll weevils, rockhounds, and wildcatters.
Business
July 31, 1974
Pappy’s Girls
Separating the dancer from the dance in the world of strip tease.
Business
July 31, 1974
King of the Hobbyists
What kind of man would establish a museum which exhibits a bottle of dust from the wings of model airplanes and 250,000 three cent stamps?
Business
June 30, 1974
Marginal Utilities
Utilities companies’ long range plans didn’t include a fuel shortage. Now they have shortages of a different kind to worry about.
Business
April 30, 1974
Trolleys for Austin
Austin, a city of great natural beauty, with the Colorado River gliding by south of downtown and the pleasing congruence of hills and lakes flanking its west side, has a unique chance to beautify and humanize its central business district.Led by architect David Graeber, the East Sixth Conservation Society is
Business
April 30, 1974
The Avalon Drug Store
On a Saturday morning in January, 1971, three days before the inauguration of Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, the then-Assistant US Attorney Theo Pinson strolled into Houston’s Avalon Drug Store after a toot on the town, a bit disheveled but still resplendent in his midnight blue tuxedo,
Business
April 30, 1974
Going For Brokers
It costs money to make money, nut how are brokers commissions affecting the private investor’ss chances of turning a profit?
Business
April 30, 1974
How First National Passed Republic
The biggest Texas banks are up to their same old game—getting bigger.
Politics & Policy
March 31, 1974
Come Back, Little Trader
Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.
Business
March 31, 1974
Ambush on Wall Street
Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?
Business
February 28, 1974
The Last of the Red Hot Deals
In the past people have made a pretty penny from initial offerings. No more.
Business
January 31, 1974
Running Out of Gas
The energy crisis has caused a crisis of nerves for the Chicken Littles of Wall Street.
Business
January 31, 1974
Sold American!
Selling a herd of prime cattle can be tricky business. And it takes professionals to do it right.
Business
January 1, 1974
The Market Sheds a Tier
IBM and friends could soon be steping down from their pedestals.
Style & Design
January 1, 1974
Temple of Cloth
The Apparel Mart in Dallas clothes Middle America. Their merchandise may not win many fashion awards, but it sells, and sells, and sells.
Business
December 1, 1973
Airport!
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
Business
December 1, 1973
The Gold Bugs
When inflation hits the international scene the gnomes of Zurich and the goldbugs start racing for the ingots. But how smart an investment is gold these days?
Business
November 1, 1973
Empires of Paper
A law firm of almost 200 attorneys becomes an institution with massive power and life of its own. Three such firms are in Texas, including two of the four largest in the U.S. We open them, for the first time, to the public.
Business
September 30, 1973
It’s a beautiful day in Chicago
How to keep your options, stock that is, open during Phase IV.
Business
August 31, 1973
Is There Hope For Wall Street?
Institutions give the little guy the squeeze.
Business
August 31, 1973
Body Business At Tokyo House
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.