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Title
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'She Got the Job Done': Millionaire Hudson Dies
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Description
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Biography of Mary Hudson, "a self-made multimillionaire who succeeded in a man's world of oil, land and cattle." Her oil company was established in 1933 at 25th and Broadway Boulevard and grew until Hudson was a member of the "Fortune 400 list of richest Americans."
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Date
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1999-09-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Mary Hudson
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Description
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Obituary and description of the life of business executive Hudson.
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Date
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1999-09-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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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Founder's Death Signals Fall of Local Hudson Oil Empire
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Description
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Article describes the decline and fall of Hudson Oil. Fisca Oil Company, Inc., "the last vestige of the Hudson family's locally based oil empire" has only 12 Missouri and Kansas convenience stores. Fisca was started in 1962 by Murdock Hudson who had worked with his sister Mary in building her company.
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Date
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2007-06-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
