Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow let it be known that it regarded the presence of British warships in the Persian Gulf as "an intention to pressure Iran and actively intervene in her internal affairs...
Died. Sam Maceo, 57, Italian immigrant who became a shady but glamorous Texas celebrity; of cancer; in Baltimore. After working as a barber in Galveston, Maceo opened a cafe, made a fortune as a Gulf Coast rumrunner, set up in Galveston (with brother Rose Maceo) some of the nation's gaudiest nightclubs and gambling joints frequented by show folk and millionaires...
...California's lush, hot Imperial Valley, where the harvest season was at its height. But they were crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, too; by autumn, immigration men estimate, more than a million wetbacks will have surged across the 2,000-mile border between the Pacific and the Gulf, hunting jobs as the Forty-Niners hunted gold...
...between Protestantism and Catholicism. As Bishop Sherrill says: "The bridge doesn't seem to have anything to hook on to at present, and a bridge with nothing to hook on to is just up in the air." But if it is not yet a span across the greatest gulf in Christendom, the Episcopalians' latitude may yet provide a few planks to throw across interdenominational ditches...
...chief producers in the U.S., Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. and Freeport Sulphur Co., have cut their domestic deliveries 15% to 20%. The National Production Authority pared exports down to two-thirds of last year's 1,200,000 tons. As a result, Britain, which buys 40% of the total U.S. export, faces big cuts in her chemical industry, has already cut back rayon production 20% and may soon be forced to reduce it another...