Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the normally cordial Key West, Fla. weather seemed to be handing Harry Truman his hat and hinting that it was time to pack up and go. Heavy winds howled in off the gulf one day last week; the swim was canceled, and so was the brisk morning walk. The President bundled up in his sweater and stayed indoors...
...long as the current gas surplus exists, oilmen contended that gas prices, even in the field, would not rise much. Eventually, they probably would. Said Gordon W. Reed, chairman of small-sized Texas Gulf Producing Co.: "Where the price of gas will end, no one can predict right now, but it is definitely going to reach its economic level. Prices to producers in the Southwest could go up another 5/ or 6/ a thousand cubic feet [roughly 55%] without affecting consumers' prices- in the North...
Except for two muggy days, the weather at Key West, Fla. was fine. The sky was blue, and out beyond the rustling palms, sunlight glittered on the turquoise shoals and cobalt deeps of the Gulf of Mexico. The nights were cool. But as he settled down for his eighth vacation at the lawn-bordered "Little White House," Harry Truman seemed less intent than usual on savoring the joys of sunburn and exercise...
Herberg finds the divisions in contemporary Judaism insignificant compared to "the great gulf that today separates the synagogue as a whole from the vital areas of Jewish life." Though there are nearly 5,000,000 U.S. Jews, no more than 1,500,000-less than a third-"have even the remotest connection with the synagogue." And most of these, says Herberg, find the center of their interest as Jews not in religious but in secular concerns such as "Zionism, labor unionism, philanthropy, social service, 'anti-defamation.' . . . Religion is, in fact, often regarded as a kind of leisure-time...
...Varna Gulf, Varna Lake and the Mus-Allah lakes were renamed for Stalin...