Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard of California, the Texas Co. and Socony-Vacuum. It took Hull almost three years to finish Tapline. To throw his line from the oilfields at Abqaiq near the Persian Gulf across four Arab lands to the Sidon terminus, Hull had to organize supply lines halfway around the world...
Last week U.S. bird watchers had an eye peeled for the peregrine falcons which were migrating from the northeastern U.S. and Canada to the Gulf states and the Caribbean. But not all were migrating this month. The New York World-Telegram and Sun noted that a very few will winter-as-usual, of all places, high on craggy skyscrapers in Manhattan. There they have found ledges as bare and precipitous as any mountain falcon eyrie. And they have a year-round food supply in the thousands of fat and sassy Manhattan pigeons who linger below...
General Simmons spoke on "Health and Manpower in Peace or War" at the banquet of the Third Gulf Coast Regional Conference on Industrial Health...
...That's the fourth we've picked up on the way in here this morning." Said MacArthur: "That's courtesy." As the Asiatic sunrise broke over the black, sawtooth hills of the Korean coast, the general grasped both arms of his chair. "Just like Lingayen Gulf," he observed. "But quieter and nicer...
...synoptic situation," the complicated interaction of air masses of varying temperatures, pressure and wind velocity. All "artificial" rain, they insist, would have fallen anyhow, without man's help. The July 1949 rainfall in New Mexico, for instance, they attribute to a front moving in from the Gulf of Mexico...