Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung out his shingle in Pittsburgh, he scraped up $5,000 for an oil driller's rig and took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...
Titling his Commencement Part "An Attitude Towards Literature," Kerans deplored the "long-lamented gulf between the serious writer and the reading public.... A literature which deals with the full and complex range of human experience... can become a standard and accessible literature only if it fills a need at once conscious and widespread...
After that, restless William knew what he wanted. When the Mellons picked up some more leases, he got his chance. He helped organize Gulf Oil Corp in 1907, became its president two years later. By 1929, Gulf under William Mellon had netted an average of $25 million a year for nearly a decade. Since then it has grown into the world's fourth largest oil producer (total assets: $839 million), with holdings scattered from Venezuela to the Middle East. For the first quarter of this year, the company reported a whopping profit...
...take his place he picked Gulf President James Frank Drake, 67, a Mellon-trained man who has worked for the family since 1919. Into the presidency went Vice President Sidney A. Swensrud, 47, an oilman right after old Bill Mellon's heart. An honor graduate of Harvard's business school, he left a teaching job there to join Standard Oil Co. (of Ohio) in 1928, was vice president in charge of production when Bill Mellon hired him a year ago. With Swensrud as chief administrative officer, Gulf is certain to continue on its big-spending Mellon...
...barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named Porfirio Diaz, rushed in from the flanks, and the veterans of Sevastopol and Solferino knew that they were beaten. Leaving 1,000 dead, Lorencez began his retreat toward the Gulf...