Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shop-one Negro and one mule," Ingalls built his blacksmith and forging business into Alabama's Ingalls Iron Works, biggest independent steel fabricator in the South. He branched out into shipbuilding, and wartime orders built his Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. of Pascagoula, Miss, into the largest shipyard on the Gulf Coast. Last year the combined enterprises grossed more than...
...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
Continental Trailways, one of the biggest U.S. bus lines, also has a big weakness: its routes are chiefly between Denver and Chicago and the Gulf. It has only one route to the West Coast (to Los Angeles), and none at all to the East. To get its passengers there, it has to turn them over to competitors...
...Kurdistan is Russia's natural entry into the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, the Middle Eastern Arab states...
...among five sovereign nations (Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting in Russia and the cutting edge facing the oil fields and fertile valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris. U.S. military men rate Kurdistan important for three reasons...