An old salt aboard the oil tanker Texaco Massachusetts sensed trouble as the 604-foot rig churned away from a pier toward a tricky dogleg into the Kill van Kull under the Bayonne Bridge. Alfonso Co… ...

For his temerity in trimming the elder Morgan in a stock deal, John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was "exiled'' from Wall Street about 1900. One year later oil gushed in Texas ...