Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples for political freedom, and the clash of Western imperialisms in the strategic region of Suez and the Persian Gulf...
...lights went on again-within reason-all over the U.S. After 14 to 18 months of dimout, cities along the East, West and Gulf Coasts were told to relax and light up-but not too much. Chief reservations: 1) Washington suggested that a "brownout" (midway between total darkness and every movie marquee ablaze) would help save electricity and fuel; 2) Army & Navy men warned that if enemy submarines should crop up in force again off U.S. coasts, out the lights must go; 3) OCD officials promised that there would still be an occasional air-raid drill...
...Japanese Navy had been lying low for months. The last time Japanese units had shown themselves in battle was in Kula Gulf on July 7, and the last time before that was in the final tussle off Guadalcanal in November...
Then suddenly the Gulf was dark again. There were no more targets, they had been destroyed. The U.S. ships moved off. Said Norton-Taylor's dispatch...
...Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest domestic affiliate of Standard of New Jersey, bailed out the first 400 barrels of black crude from the first producing well on the Eastern Seaboard. Standard's 11,700-ft.-deep well added fuel to the old hope of geologists that the great Gulf Coast oil beds extend eastward to the Atlantic, comprise an area almost double that of the present known fields...