Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indicated it was willing to settle a civil case by an out-of-court consent decree. Oil company law yers, after a stormy meeting with Attor ney General James McGranery, called the offer "outrageous blackmail" and said they would never accept such an "insulting" proposal. Meanwhile, the companies, except Gulf, were still awaiting trial of another suit charging them with over pricing oil sold...
...Princeton in French literature. In a one-act play by Merimee, he found the germ of an idea for another book. One day he sat down and wrote: "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." Thus began The Bridge of San Luis...
...Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece and wisdom from Egypt, but with the coming on of night they seemed to regain their lost honors, and the land that was soon to be called Holy...
...sold consistently several cents below the government's limit. With other products, moreover, the price has been set so artificially low as to create shortages. DiSalle's decision last year on the price of fuel oil for homes on the Eastern seaboard is a case in point. The Gulf Company's refusal to sell at a loss produced a dearth of oil which was alleviated only when the Petroleum Administration for Defense (which is independent of the OPS) persuaded eleven large companies to enter a voluntary agreement to sell oil below cost. The fiction of control on the one hand...
...petrochemical industry, based on the immense natural gas resources of the oilfields, seemed the fastest grower in 1952. In Texas, where new multimillion-dollar plants were no rarity, some Texans predicted that petrochemicals would outstrip oil as their biggest industry. But Texas and the Gulf Coast had no monopoly on petrochemicals; California was giving it a race, and in the Great Plains' great new oil province of the Williston Basin, North Dakotans were predicting that their own petrochemical industry would soon arise...