Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years a bandit chieftain named Dadshah has ruled supreme on the harsh and inhospitable Tangeorkheh Desert in southeastern Iran, looting, pillaging, murdering and conducting a brisk trade in girls in the slave markets of the Persian Gulf. But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery. Last week banditry on Dadshah's desert became an international concern, and the Shah himself ordered the gendarmes out to catch the culprits, try them on the spot and shoot them dead...
...East, ex-Congressman James Richards. As the bodies of the two Americans were returned to Teheran with full military honors, Iran's government set the diplomatic wires humming with apologies and promises of an all-out mobilization to find the missing Anita Carroll. Iranian navy boats patrolled the Gulf of Oman to head off bandit attempts to escape into Pakistan. On the other side of the border, a Pakistani paratroop unit stood by. Prayers for Mrs. Carroll's safety were ordered in Iran's mosques. Camel riders streaked into the desert bearing Iranian government offers...
...sunny valley of the Fuerte River, along Mexico's Gulf of California coast, not enough rain has fallen in the past six years to settle the dust. Yet last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel...
Only ten years ago the entire gulf coast was a useless, dusty plain. Only a few farmers eked out a skimpy existence along the riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished...
EXOTIC-FUEL DEAL will put Gulf Oil Corp. into new field of high-energy jet and missile fuels. Gulf is buying 25% of Gallery Chemical Co., developers of promising "HiCal" boron fuel (TIME, March 18), will start joint research and production program...