Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week twelve fully laden tankers lay in the hot, bustling Persian Gulf port of Abadan, unable to move because Teheran insisted that the tanker captains sign receipts saying they owed the "Iranian National Oil Co." for their cargoes. Ten more days of this and Abadan's storage facilities would overflow, the world's largest refinery would have to shut down...
Chief comment around the Square was on the new booth's architecture--Gulf Station Colonial...
Lost & Found. Off Pensacola, Fla., Chief Machinist Mate Dilbert D. Woolworth dropped his cigarette lighter into the Gulf, five minutes later got it back from a 15-lb. grouper hooked by his fishing companion...
Even a landlubber who only goes down to the sea in books knows that the first seamen to board a ship adrift and take her in tow can claim salvage. Last fortnight, in a Gulf of Mexico fog, the Esso oil tanker Greensboro collided with the Esso tanker Suez and caught fire, killing 38 of the Greensboro's 42-man crew. The captain and crew of a rival tanker Virginia, which was nearby, saw a chance to invoke the sea's ancient...
...Santayana, even a momentous East-West clash would be foam in the trough of history's innumerable waves. He has no chummy predisposition to back the U.S. team. Aristocratic, contemplative, traditional, he is separated from the America he left in 1912 by a wider gulf than the Atlantic. Occasionally his biases flash...