Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prewar U.S. possessions: the Panama Canal Zone, the Hawaiian Islands, the Aleutians (probable base: Adak). The others: i) the entire Mariana group (Guam, Saipan, Tinian, 12 smaller islands) which taken together may be the U.S. Navy's postwar headquarters; 2) a Central Philippines base, probably on Leyte Gulf, which the Filipinos would undoubtedly grant...
...SERVICE NEWS, Mesbahzadeh former head of the Department of Information and Propaganda in Iran, emphasized the extent to which Iran has contributed to the war-effort by transporting more than 6,000,000 tons of lend-lease material to Russia over their only railroad, which runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea passing through Teheran...
...Battle for Leyte Gulf she polished off two Jap cripples, an escort carrier and a light cruiser. In 25 months she fired 174,350 rounds of antiaircraft, plus 33,323 rounds of 5-and 6-inch shells at enemy shores...
California is pouring most of her 952,000 barrels a week westward; Texas and the Gulf fields are shipping another 2,700,000 barrels by ship and by rail & pipeline to East and West Coast ports; the Middle East is supplying another 566,000 barrels a day. Before long, oil may again be coming out of Borneo. But it may be only a trickle of 55,000 barrels daily...
Despite this outpouring, there is still not enough oil. By the first quarter of 1946, total Allied requirements, civilian and military, will be 154,000 barrels a day greater than the supply. One reason: a tanker carrying oil from the Gulf Coast to Europe burned up only 8,000 barrels on the way over and back; the long trip to the Pacific bases eats up 21,000 barrels...