Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning sun shone warm and bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.-"The Port of Opportunity." Stores were busy, prosperous people "howdy'd" one another in the streets. Down along the waterfront, $125 million worth of oil refineries, tin smelters and chemical plants labored mightily to assure Texas City's future. Down there too was the only small blot on the day-the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and docked some 700 ft. from the great Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, was afire...
...Communism will flourish wherever living conditions are bad, and especially where there is a wide gulf between the standards of the rich and those of the poor...
Barnard said that a mile away black smoke from six roaring fires billows 5,000 feet into the air, drifting southward out over the gulf...
...world as a highly literate, vigorous peasant people, used to fighting for the reluctant fruit of their poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the summer they used to go swimming along the endless, pine-studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild...
...scramble for space, Houston's ship channel to the Gulf has become almost as crowded as the Hoboken waterfront. There big new chemical plants are going up. Along its 50 miles of shore are concentrated $6 million worth of plants. Houston's population is up from 510,000 in 1940 to a jampacked 700,000; employment is greater than at war's peak...