Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine months of the year the northeast trade winds blow across the Gulf of Venezuela into Colombia, where the Andes taper off in three great wrinkles in the earth's crust. As the warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish...
...years since oil was first found oozing from the ground around masses of asphalt in the Maracaibo Basin, more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum have crossed the shallow bar that joins Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. For a few years Venezuela ranked second to the U. S. in oil production, though since 1931 Russia has crowded it into third place. In neighboring Colombia, where the oil oozed just as freely, only Standard Oil of New Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields...
...world's great concessions, though hardly a barrel of oil has yet been taken out of it. Wells have been drilled, but the necessary pipe-line to the coast is yet to be laid. For the past decade the Barco concession has been controlled by Gulf Oil Corp...
Last week Texas Corp.'s Chairman Torkild Rieber confirmed reports that Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp. were jointly negotiating with Gulf. Said Mr. Rieber: "Socony-Vacuum and the Texas Corp. will participate equally in this purchase and will proceed at once with the exploration and development of the territory...
...Outdoor Life, potent sporting magazine which his father had founded in 1898. Editor McGuire took seriously his job of running a publication, increased circulation to 139,603, made $50,000 in good years. In line of duty he formed a Bear Protection Society, went deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with the president of the University of Minnesota and, while intoxicated in Mexico, shot the sixth largest antelope ever bagged...