Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice presidents and two legal counselors converged on Riyadh and began soothing Ibn Saud. Before they are through, Aramco may have to: 1) admit Saudi Arabians to its board, 2) agree to pay more of Ibn Saud's royalties in dollars, less in sterling, 3) finance the Gulf-to-Mecca railway...
...stations, spotted from Libreville in French Equatorial Africa to the Persian Gulf, Air Force observers will measure the fading sunlight. Even in bad weather their photoelectric cells and elaborate timing devices will be able to record the instant of total eclipse. Knowing the speed with which sun and moon move in relation to the earth, they hope to calculate the distance between stations with new accuracy...
...Oates's first move was to acquire it outright for more than $42 million, thus got control of a second pipeline under construction. Gates then formed another pipeline subsidiary with $120 million capital, and last year started the new 30-in. line snaking its way up from the Gulf Coast...
...leading role in the new industrial economy. Similarly responsible for much of the recent manufacturing expansion (and directly related to the industrial areas on the map) are the South's natural-resource riches: iron ore and coal in Alabama and Kentucky, natural gas and oil along the Gulf Coast, Georgia's and South Carolina's clay, North Carolina's mica and feldspar, Louisiana's sulphur, bauxite in Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, phosphate rock in Tennessee and Florida, commercial forest land in all eleven states...
...Kuwait alone, where Anglo-Iranian splits production with Gulf Oil Corp., output is close to 800,000 bbls. a day, compared to 640,000 bbls. a day from Iran before nationalization. And last week Anglo-Iranian and Gulf assured the steady flow of Kuwait oil by signing a 50-50 profit-sharing agreement with the Sheik of Kuwait. By expanding its refineries all over the world, Anglo-Iranian expects to make up by 1953 for the loss of the Abadan refinery...