Word: gulf
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Many another corporation followed right behind the leaders. In petroleum, Socony Mobil earned a record $97 million in the first half, up 10.2% from last year; Gulf Oil's semiannual $91,871,000, 13.7% higher than last year, set another record; Phillips Petroleum's profit hike of 12.3% above the previous half year, to $42,575,770, set still another high mark. Little Steel was not to be outdone. Operating at 101% capacity, Jones & Laughlin netted $12,926,000 in the second quarter, 104% above a year ago. while Bethlehem, averaging 100.6% capacity, also hit a new quarterly...
After listening for hours to Carter eloquently describe a project to make Fort Worth a seaport by dredging the often-dry Trinity River the 350 miles from Fort Worth to the Gulf of Mexico, his good friend Will Rogers gestured for silence and whispered: "Listen! I hear those seagulls now." Once Carter emerged from an all-afternoon session with President Franklin Roosevelt and announced triumphantly: "I got my five feet." Carter had talked F.D.R. into adding five feet on to the Government's proposed mile-long Convair plant, because Tulsa was about to get an aircraft plant a mile...
...guaranteed annual wage came to a second major U.S. industry last week. After a one-day strike, the C.I.O. National Maritime Union won a contract for supplementary unemployment payments from Atlantic and Gulf Coast ship operators. Shippers will contribute 25? daily for each man working, build a fund to make up the difference for 26 weeks between state unemployment compensation ($36 a week in New York, $30 in New Jersey) and $40 weekly when maritime workers are laid...
...grip on fuel and Standard's grip on oil. Before Spindletop, Standard directly controlled 83% of America's annual 58 million barrels; a year later it was just another competitor. Spindletop gave birth to the entire Texas oil industry and to two of its giants: Texaco and Gulf...
...French ship poked its bow into the Gulf of Tunis, a small, dark-eyed man in red tarboosh and grey business suit stared at the distant mountains and sobbed nervously. Habib Bourguiba, frail, 51-year-old leader of Tunisia's Neo-Destour and father of Tunisian nationalism, was returning in triumph to his country. It was the peak of a lifetime of struggle, over ten years of it spent in exile or French prisons...