Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult for our people to realize the degree to which the chancelleries of great European nations are willing to interfere politically in support of the business interests of their nationals, or the degree of economic vassalage accepted by the smaller states of the Persian Gulf in the treaties by which they are allied to Britain. Able as American business may be, it cannot support itself against such unequal competition...
...Evans graduated from Yale into the depression in 1931. He was glad to get a lowly clerk's job with the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. But that was as far as the Mellon help went. With only some fatherly advice from Gulf's Board Chairman, W. L. Mellon, Tom Evans made his way alone. For six years he saved money, like an Alger hero; and played the stockmarket, unlike an Alger hero. Thus he collected $10,000. He wanted to find and buy a family-owned business that had gone to pot. In the down...
Search. When the U.S. Generals took off from Cairo with their wampum, they naturally assumed the King was in his capital. But when they arrived at Abadan on the Persian Gulf, the Generals learned that the King had gone ahunting. By the time they spotted Ibn Saud's party they had wandered 1,100-odd air miles...
...cracked again, made Dutch Harbor, was repaired by Seabees this time and cleared for Seattle. In the Gulf of Alaska she ran into a gusty blow, hove to for eight hours, cracked again, rigged chains to relieve the stress. When she finally made Puget Sound, she was leaking but still under her own steam...
...Cameron County, 3,500 acres of vegetables, in San Patricio County on the Gulf, more than 2,000 acres of spinach, 25% of the onion crop, were destroyed...