Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons last July that His Majesty's government would not withdraw from Abadan completely, the British lion seemed ready for an oldtime imperial roar. From Cyprus to the Persian Gulf, British paratroops, marines and warships stood by. They were ready to go into action if Iran tried to seize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s huge refinery...
Through it all. Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman stayed mum. Sniffing skulduggery, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman E. E. Willis fired off a letter to Chapman, sarcastically pointing out that homestead scrip was never intended to help start a farm "at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico." Willis demanded to know why Chapman, who usually acts on mineral lease applications in a matter of days, has let months pass without denying Cord's claims. By last week Chapman had still taken no action, but Interior officials said privately that Cord's claims will be tossed out. Another possible...
Standard Oil (N.J.) $3,526,043,348 General Motors 2,957,769,607 U.S. Steel 2,534,971,836 Standard Oil (Indiana) 1,500,049,488 Socony-Vacuum 1,443,034,000 The Texas Co. 1,277,093,761 Gulf Oil 1,191,004,087 E. I. du Pont de Nemours 1,189,345,419 General Electric 1,177,391,546 Ford...
...Gulf Between Generations...
Well, that is the gulf between the generations and it is up to us to be very attentive to it. Now, freshmen and sophomores stop me on the street and visit me in my rooms to ask me about these very writers. And that shows us that these writers are fulfilling a profound need for those who live in stormy weather. And I find three tacit assumptions within their work that are reflected in the best young 20th century minds, assumptions that he could not have grasped...