Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another slow step toward decision. Last week the House of Representatives passed (285-108) a bill to give coastal states title to the submerged land which lies from the low water mark seaward to the states' historic boundaries (10½ miles in the case of Texas and the gulf coast of Florida, three miles for all other states). The Senate is expected to pass a tidelands bill differing in detail from that of the House...
...outpost in Germany during the last war, and the styles of the writers are as varied as their settings. But the noteworthy thing about the fiction is that the story which takes place in Paris cannot be called a "Paris story," just as the one which occurs on the Gulf Coast is not a "Southern story" and the German one is not a "war story." The fiction takes flavor of language and character from its settings, but it is not restricted by them...
...Persian Gulf, by the shore of the Neutral Zone of Kuwait, lies a battered old World War II LST, a displaced veteran of the invasion of Leyte. For three years it has served as a forward outpost of one of the oil industry's most famous field bosses, James MacPherson, 62, as he hunted for oil ashore. At a cost of $30 million, MacPherson's long-futile quest became the most expensive in Middle East history. After five dry holes, oilmen all over the Middle East joked: "Four more holes will give Mac a nine-hole golf course...
...Chips. Nobody was more relieved than American Independent Oil Co.'s President Ralph K. Davies, 55, the man who raised the $30 million for the gamble. With nine other independent producers, Davies formed Aminoil in 1947 to give independents, as well as majors, a Middle East concession. Gulf and Anglo-Iranian had sewed up Kuwait; Aramco (jointly owned by Standard of California, Texas, Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum) had a grip on Saudi Arabia. But nobody had the "no man's land" between-the Neutral Zone jointly run by the Sheiks of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Davies leased...
Both the U.S. Weather Bureau and National Airlines weather information service expected stormy weather in the Gulf of Mexico as National's Flight 470 left Miami for Tampa and New Orleans at 3:16 E.S.T. one afternoon last week. There was a low-pressure area over the Gulf, a cold front was moving out from Texas, and small-craft warnings were flying along the coast. But the weather was expected to remain well within the "limits of operating conditions" for the four-engined DC-6. Its captain, Ernest A. Springer, was a 44-year-old veteran of airline operation...