Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of Southern family relationships, The Fathers might well have furnished a plot for William Faulkner. But in a Faulkner novel the portrayal of decadence would have left no room for Tate's wavering conclusion. Between Novelists Tate and Faulkner the gulf is as wide as that which separated the Border States' champion compromiser, Henry Clay, and the Deep South's champion non-compromiser, Jeff Davis...
Aside from an emergency course of sprouts whisked up by the old Shipping Board during the War, the U. S. has never had a merchant-marine training school, has been far behind all other seafaring nations in this respect. Two additional branches are planned, one for the Gulf ports, another on the Pacific coast...
...shares Gulf Oil Corp. (control of whose 12.000,000 shares rests with the Mellons), worth...
...took eleven years to complete the 865-mile railway which more than tripled Iran's previously existing lines. Heading north from the Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot...
...file with SEC or awaiting issuance are four sizable issues proposed for sale in September: Youngstown Sheet & Tube, $30,000,000; Phillips Petroleum, $25,000,000; Atlantic Refining Co., $25,000,000; Gulf States Utilities $10,000,000. Only about half of these four borrowings are for working capital-hence industrial companies, if not utilities, are floating loans for new money. Another plain fact is that generally only top-notch companies thus far have tried to raise money and they have offered mostly senior issues. Many economists hold that there can be no noteworthy recovery in the capital market until...