Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily wooded island named Phuquoc in the Gulf of Siam live 25,000 trim, tautly disciplined Chinese soldiers, who drill every day with wooden guns and wait for something to happen. They are Nationalist China's "forgotten army," the survivors of a once-beaten mass which was pushed out of Yunnan Province in the final days of the Chinese Communist victory, and made its way through rough mountain country into French Indo-China. There, three years ago, they were disarmed and interned by the French...
...restless South Africa, where a stern and self-righteous government is deliberately widening the gulf between races, violent passions were producing more & more violent demands. Nationalist Prime Minister Daniel Malan last week asked for dictatorial emergency powers from Parliament...
Humphrey flew to Canada to buttonhole Timmins. The land lay in desolate territory some 300 miles north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in an area called "Ungava"-Eskimo for "faraway." Said Humphrey to Timmins: "What if you found $100 million worth of gold up there? Would anybody build a railroad to bring it out?" He answered his own question. Hurrying back to the U.S., he got the backing of five big U.S. steel companies, a $200 million loan from insurance companies, and formed a corporation with Timmins' Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd. to bring out the iron...
...among the most ambitious feats in the history of private capital. The company operates its own air transport service for personnel and supplies. And it is now in mid-construction on a 358-mile double-track railroad to bring the ore down to dockside in the St. Lawrence Gulf. First ore shipments are due in 1954. Soon afterward, production will rise to about 10 million tons a year, and can be boosted to 30 million...
...Jersey Standard, Standard of California, Socony-Vacuum, Texas Co., Gulf...