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Title
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Play to Win: Mary Hudson Survives the Crisis
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Mary Hudson, founder and owner of "Hudson Oil Company, now [1974] owner of over three hundred [gas] stations," headquartered in the Kansas City area. Description of her life and career. During the Great Depression she was "left a widow in her early twenties with a baby daughter," yet starting her own service station and continuing her business through the fuel crisis of the early 1970s, with plans of "building a major oil refinery."
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Date
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1974-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Betting Dollars to Donuts: How Kansas City's Lord of the Long John Nearly Lost His Business [and Making the Rounds and Sweet Revenge]
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Description
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Photos and biographical articles about Ray Lamar, founder and owner of "LaMar's Donuts, arguably one of the most successful and long-surviving doughnut shops in America," starting in 1960 at "a former gas station on Linwood, two blocks east of Main" Street (240 East Linwood Boulevard) and expanding with other locations in the Kansas City metro area. Description of Lamar's life and career, born in Kansas City about 1910 and entering the donut business in 1933 at "Jack Frost Do-Nuts, in the LaSalle Theater building at 34th and Broadway."
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Date
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1997-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article