Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florence had not been able to pay for the trip and training expenses, so she had taken a job as a secretary with the Arabian American Oil Co. The company had paid her way abroad; Florence had kept in practice with after-work swims in the Persian Gulf...
...order to recondition three mothball Victory ships was the biggest contract Puget Sound shipbuilders had seen in several years. Shipyard employment has dropped from a wartime peak of 90,000 in Seattle alone to a handful of 2,600 workers in the whole state of Washington. Along the Gulf Coast, Pascagoula's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. was the only yard with new construction under way last week. And Ingalls is building just one ship: an experimental model of a highspeed (18½ knots) cargo steamer which the Maritime Board hopes to use as a prototype for future cargo vessels...
Lonely Bahrein Island, off the east coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, is a hot, humid desert, inhabited mostly by Arabian pearl divers and British and American oil drillers. Its airport on nearby Muharrak Island is a stopover for Air France planes on the Saigon-Paris run, and French pilots don't particularly like it: the weather in the Gulf is treacherous, and within minutes fine flying weather can become a horror of sandstorms, torrential rains or typhoons...
...senior Senator from Texas waggled his head and asked plaintively: "Is there nothing beyond the reach of arbitrary power?" Tom Connally was complaining about last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision, which took away control of the tidal oil lands in the Gulf of Mexico from Texas and Louisiana and gave it to the Federal Government...
...note requesting that it be returned to him. When the bottle was dropped, the schooner Bowdoin was sailing on a course west from Cape Chidley to Frobisher Bay in Baffin Land. Apparently the bottle drifted south down the coast of Labrador to the Grand Banks, where the Gulf Stream carried it to Scotland...