Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure of the westerlies had the opposite effect in the east. A high-pressure area (the Bermuda High) was unusually strong and hung persistently off the coast. The wind circulating clockwise around it brought warm, moist air from over the Gulf Stream. Unchecked by the westerlies, it penetrated far into the interior, keeping the western cold away and giving the eastern U.S. a balmy "maritime" winter...
...began in 1933 with the perfection of directional drilling, which allowed the necessary machinery to be on land. By 1947, California was receiving nearly $4 million in annual royalties from its off-shore oil. The importance of Tideland Oil has greatly increased with the more recent prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Over 2 1/2 million acres of the Gulf have already been leased for oil development, although this is still a wildeat area with only a few producing wells. But vast sums are being poured into the development and prospecting of Gulf...
Between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, by the Persian Gulf, lies the "neutral zone"-a condominium of Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Kuwait's Sheik Sir Ahmad al Jabir-al-Subah. There, last week, business looked cracking good...
...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
...told, 37,000 U.S. wells were sunk, including one 27 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico; 8,000 miles of pipelines were laid, and 62 tankers were being built to bring in oil from South America and the Middle East. Domestic demand kept rising also until it reached 622 gallons per capita, v. 464 in 1941. Yet oil production at year's end was 17% above the wartime high; the shortage had been licked so thoroughly that some oil prices had started to drop...