Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle post as commander of the cruiser Louisville, he was pulled back to Washington to head the Navy's important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good golfer (low 70s). He is married, has a daughter and two sons, each a lieutenant, one Army, one Navy...
When the Texas legislature's "little Kefauver committee" began snuffling about in search of scofflaws, it turned almost automatically on the Gulf Coast's island city of Galveston (pop. 65,000)-always one of the widest-open towns in the U.S. But Galveston's politicos and gamblers betrayed neither the sheepish guilt, the sullen defiance nor the outraged innocence commonly shown by victims...
Ever since Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. developed its first producing well in a Gulf Coast salt dome 33 years ago, Walter Hull Aldridge has been its boss. Under Aldridge, Texas Gulf became the world's biggest producer of sulphur (second: Freeport Sulphur Co.) and the largest source of the cheap, pure sulphur (i.e., brimstone) needed by thousands of industries. Last week Walter Aldridge, 83, resigned as president of Texas Gulf and stepped up to be board chairman...
Into his place went Fred M. Nelson, 54, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines in 1925, who worked as a geophysicist before going to Texas Gulf in 1927 as a $200-a-month geological scout...
...When I came to Texas Gulf," says Nelson, "we were mostly checking up on what the other fellow was doing." The "other fellow" was the Germans who had come to the U.S. to find sulphur with scientific devices that were well ahead of those of the U.S. companies. Nelson caught up with the other fellow so fast that by 1928 he was boss of drilling at Texas Gulf's old Texas fields, later managed production of the vast new Boling Dome deposit on the Gulf Coast. In 1931, he invented the sulphur trap to separate air and steam from...