Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported positions. Fifteen miles away Captain Joseph Boyd had pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery practice, was closing a 52-mile gap. And the old but agile lie de France, which had been running at 17 knots 45 miles to the east, had come hard about, kicked up to 22. and promised to reach Andrea Doria within two hours...
Then, to a world that had wondered about her chances, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen flashed a death notice...
...painful to the pleasant, Mizuki-san devoted the rest of the time to a sequence of colored slides of Japan and Japanese life. The beauties of the Japanese landscape are second to none; and the closest resemblances in this country are to be seen along portions of the Maine coast...
...edge of the Sahara, are mostly Moslem; the center region of Ashanti is run by tribal chieftains who recognize that the city slickers down in the capital of Accra threaten ancient tribal ways. The new N.L.M. party talked up a federal system with decentralized powers. The Gold Coast is only about as big as Nebraska, however, with only 4,500,000 people, and Nkrumah argued that "regionalism must not replace nationalism...
Phillips knew what it was doing. With plenty of cash McGee soon had a string of wells in the rich-paying Gulf Coast zone in Louisiana. Then Kerr-McGee started operating on its own in an area where few oilmen had yet ventured: the Louisiana tidelands. Says McGee: "It looked better to us than staying on land, where the first-class spots were already leased and drilled. Some said it took courage. Others just said we were foolish...