Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like, or with a man who will not try Tom Gifford's theories. One of them is that trolling is not the best way to get sailfish; more can be caught using live bait while anchored or drifting along the rim of the coral reefs that edge the Gulf Stream. Snorts Captain Gifford: "The charter thinks he has to troll when he goes big-game fishing, and he gets mad as hell when you stop and anchor. A lot of them say: 'Whatcha doing? You going to bottom fish? I didn't come out here to catch...
Last week a group of Japanese oilmen won a 2.890-sq.-mi. concession in the Persian Gulf off the neutral zone by contracting to pay 56% of the production profits to the zone's owners, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The deal came just a few days after Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) became the first major U.S. company to upset the fifty-fifty pattern. For a 6,177-sq.-mi. concession off Iran's shores in the gulf. Indiana Standard agreed to pay 75% of profits to Iran, plus a $25 million bonus, and to spend $82 million...
...trade with East Africa and Asia while bypassing Nasser's Suez Canal. Invading Israeli armies, routing the Egyptians from the Sinai peninsula, spiked the Egyptian guns placed to menace any vessel seeking entrance from the Red Sea through the narrow, four-mile-wide Strait of Tiran into the Gulf of Aqaba and thence to Elath. Now the U.N. Emergency Force guards the strait and permits Israel "innocent passage" into the gulf, while Arab nations protest but do not intervene...
...informer-terrible things to be. Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays out of weakness, Roth's O'Neill acts from moral strength and does it on a tide of tea. (In fact, as Roth tells it, all Ireland is washed by a Gulf Stream of tannin. Births, deaths, love, wakes and warfare swim in the element...
...electronics by picking up Washington, D.C.'s small National Electronics Laboratories (sales: about $500,000), and last month it bought up Pennsylvania's Hunter-Bristol Corp. (sales: $2,000,000 from electronics, aircraft and missile components, etc.). It has joined with Gallery Chemical Co. (25% owned by Gulf Oil Corp.) to explore boron-based solid fuels...