Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf of Mexico swept a curtain of snow. It whistled through the stricken plains (see map), lashing into the land under 80 m.p.h. winds. It piled up mountainous drifts, leveled windmills and fences, ripped up loose crops, killed about 100,000 precious head of cattle. Caught in the blizzard were thousands of homeowners and travelers. Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson...
...Little in Hand. On other issues, Hammarskjold was only slightly more successful. Typically, Hammarskjold tried, in the words of an aide, to convert the disputed passage to the Gulf of Aqaba "from a political to a legal question." He got Nasser's oral agreement to allow the UNEF to remain at Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza...
...Middle Eastern stability that might be won ten years hence, the U.S. is encouraging schemes to free Western Europe from its overwhelming dependence on the Suez Canal. Last week leaders of the oil industry met in London to draw plans for a $500 million pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean through Iraq and Turkey, and to examine other ways of getting around Nasser. The world's shipyards are working at capacity building supertankers to carry Persian Gulf oil around Africa at no greater cost per barrel than smaller tankers going through Nasser's nationalized ditch...
...Gulf Oil Corp...
...William K. Whiteford, 56, president of Gulf Oil Corp., officially becomes chief executive officer with the retirement of Sidney A. Swensrud, 56, as chairman of the board, a post that will be discontinued. Burly, aggressive Bill Whiteford, who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University, was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co., Ltd., made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Swensrud, who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management, strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings, firmly but unofficially took over...