Texas, every mention

17 scenes (said by Shane Parrish) · ← back to Texas

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▶ 0:01 Shane Parrish Dallas, Texas, August, 1963.
▶ 2:25 Shane Parrish To understand what Mary Kay Ash built, you need to understand what shaped her, and that starts with a telephone in Houston, Texas around 1925.
▶ 26:52 Shane Parrish They had to rent basement storage for cosmetics, which meant walking two blocks in Texas heat every time they needed to restock.

▶ 23:28 Shane Parrish But it was in Texas that Hetty made one of her boldest moves ever. 2 times in the scene
▶ 27:21 Shane Parrish The crisis gave Hetty unprecedented leverage in Texas.
▶ 27:24 Shane Parrish Her son had turned the Texas Midland Railroad from a bankrupt, fifty-two-mile stretch into the state's most efficient railroad. 4 times in the scene
▶ 32:09 Shane Parrish Her son, Ned, revealed years later that during the 19 oh seven panic, Hetty had loaned over six million in Texas alone in addition to her New York loans.
▶ 33:02 Shane Parrish Ned had become a powerful Texas political figure, serving as the Republican state chairman,
▶ 35:18 Shane Parrish Ned continued running the Texas Midland Railroad and became a major Texas political force, living on the grand scale his mother had denied herself.

▶ 20:46 Shane Parrish By 1957, Saul's opening stores in Texas, and he immediately shocks everyone by announcing FedMart will pay a dollar an hour. 3 times in the scene
▶ 56:23 Shane Parrish Texas law in 1957 required that blacks and whites couldn't eat at the same table.

▶ 5:59 Shane Parrish Henry Singleton was born on a small ranch in Texas, where his family raised cotton and cattle. 2 times in the scene

▶ 26:10 Shane Parrish She once rode a bus for six hours to open a tiny store in Corpus Christi, Texas.

▶ 1:05:17 Shane Parrish On January sixth, 1932, a freshman Democratic congressman from Texas, Wright Patman, stood before a packed House of Representatives and declared, on my own responsibility as a member of the House, I impeach Andrew William Mellon, Secretary…

▶ 1:48 Shane Parrish Some of his companies include Ace Fence, the largest residential fencing company in Texas, Chance Rides, the leading amusement ride manufacturing company in the United States,

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