Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy cruiser Baltimore at Pearl Harbor in July 1944, the great and fateful campaign for the recapture of the Philippines was set in motion. By campaign's end, whatever chance Japan had of winning the war in the Pacific was irrevocably lost. The battle for the Gulf of Leyte decisively shifted the fortunes of war, and it is this action that dominates the twelfth volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massively conceived and brilliantly executed account of U.S. naval operations in World War II (to run through 14 volumes...
Among colonies voting an overwhelming (75%) out for the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle was parched, sun-baked French Somaliland, an 8,000-square-mile East African land of dry gullies, thorny scrub and shifting sand, on the Gulf of Aden. The out vote was in effect a vote of no for the territory's chief native political leader, Mahmoud Harbi...
...Giant Gulf Oil Corp. announced that it will analyze the speeches, voting and attendance records of "Congressmen; then Gulf management will report its findings to its 161,000 shareholders, employees and dealers. If the program proves a success, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), among other companies, will copy it. Top executives from U.S. business are now forming conservative but nonpartisan Americans for Constitutional Action to endorse pro-business candidates. Headed by Admiral Ben Moreell, who retires this week as chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., ACA counts among its trustees Armstrong Cork Co. Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; former Sears, Roebuck...
FIRST FLORIDA PIPELINE for natural gas will open within a year, serve 2,000,000 at first. The Houston Corp. of St. Petersburg is starting construction of the $161 million line, snaking 1,500 miles from Texas Gulf Coast to south of Miami...
...Arabs are determined to be lord and master of their homeland, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Gulf," shrilled Shukairy. "There must be a rushing consent to Arab aspirations before they are achieved without consent. This psychoneurotic complex of hating President Nasser should be extracted from Western thinking." The ferocity of his language might have been intended to convey verbal loyalty to Nasser and Arab nationalism while concealing Saudi Arabia's unwillingness to pool its $300 million-a-year income with its Arab brothers. As he put it, "Oil, our oil, is not a political commodity of international...