Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the greatest known oil reservoir on earth. Only in the south had part of its riches yet been tapped, by the British, but the results were impressive enough. From the oil area around Masjidi-Suleiman and the great refinery of Abadan at the head of the Persian Gulf, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. drew 350,000 barrels a day, with indicated reserves of six to seven billion barrels. Few oilmen doubted that the untapped fields north of Iran, especially round Lake Urmia and Samnan, held oil as well...
When that occurred (by drowning, in the Gulf of Spezia, 1822), Shelley's second wife, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), was left penniless. For the sake of her small son, Percy Florence Shelley, the only one of their four children to survive the Italian climate or their father's theories of human happiness, she decided to go home and rehabilitate the Shelley name...
...expects the conference, which will bring together doughty fighters from both sides, to wash down all management-labor problems in a glowing exchange of toasts between John L. Lewis and N.A.M. President Ira Mosher. The agenda committee, aware of the gulf which must be bridged, hopes to confine discussions to such procedural questions as collective bargaining and jurisdictional disputes, to avoid such knotty snarls as the wage-price puzzle...
Carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines steamed into East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast ports-Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York-while landing ships waddled up the rivers and canals to inland cities like St. Louis, Cairo, Ill., Dubuque, Iowa, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
...ferry service and the Gulf Atlantic Transportation Co. are the logical outgrowth of a small coastal barge and towing service which Williams joined only three years ago. It has been so well managed and profitable (net profits last year: $100.000) that the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville lent him $1.5 million to help finance his ferry company. The Mills Industries Inc. (juke boxes, pinball machines, etc.) may put up $1 million in exchange for a stock interest and the amusement, bar and dining concessions on Williams' ferries. Once he has them built and operating, Hustler Williams has more plans...