Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hands. During World War II, Brown served notably as 1) a member of Fleet Admiral Ernest King's staff in Washington, 2) commander of the escort carrier Kalinin Bay in the Pacific, 3) chief of staff of Carrier Division One from Leyte Gulf to the shores of Japan. Eleven more years of staff work and carrier command in the Pentagon and Mediterranean won him his third star and command of the Sixth Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold...
...biggest producer and oil-buyer in Texas, testified that it could supply only 165,500 bbls. of a 300,000 bbl. order from Esso Export. W.C. Connel of the B.P. (British Petroleum ) Trading Co. wired that British companies wanting to buy 3,000,000 bbls. on the Gulf Coast were forced to divert their tankers around Africa to the Persian Gulf because "there is no assured supply of crude...
...just as the U.S. wages unceasing shadow war against spies, so are oilmen on guard against cutthroat speculators out to filch their innermost secrets. Last week in Pittsburgh, a federal grand jury let the public in on one such cloak-and-dagger game: it indicted four men for receiving Gulf Oil Co. maps stolen by an employee, and trying to peddle them for prices reportedly up to $500,000. But even that kind of money was chicken feed to one of the indicted men: Odie Richard Seagraves, 68, an almost legendary wheeler-dealer in a land where Big Deals...
...bottleneck was at the Alton (Ill.) lock, just below the point where the Illinois River, fed in part from Lake Michigan by way of the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their...
...overcome bird predation, Dr. Urquhart and his assistants tagged 20,000 Monarchs in 1956. So far, 125 have been found. Some butterflies tagged in Ontario got all the way to Texas and the Gulf Coast. Dr. Urquhart points out that several generations of Monarchs live and die each summer in northern regions, feeding principally on milkweed. Then the generation that is adult when cold weather approaches flies south to spend the winter. Since Monarchs do not breed in the south, the same butterflies move north again in spring...