Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case at 682 m.p.h. They have been recorded in every month of the year and every state of the union, but May gets the most (22%) and so does Kansas (618 in 35 years). Between the Rockies and the Appalachians, as nowhere else on earth, cold arctic and hot Gulf winds collide, coil and writhe...
...issue is oil. Unlike the Rome government, which has prevented energetic private exploitation of oil up north, Sicily in 1950 let Gulf Oil Corp. come in and develop oil fields to a current 500-barrel-a-day output, with an eventual royalty of 20% for Sicily. Though the Communists originally voted for the Si cilian law, they have now reversed them selves and are trying to convert the oil issue into a gusher of votes...
...March and April, aftertax pay of the average factory worker with three dependents was around $70 a week. Not since the first delirious, mistaken weeks after V-J day had there been so much expectancy-with caution, this time-for peace. The fishing was good too. In the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana, speckled trout were swarming in the bays and bayous, and tarpon appeared a full month earlier than usual. Said Bill Tugman, editor of the weekly Reedsport (Ore.) Port Umpqua Courier: "The salmon are running and the trout and striped bass, and they even say the shad...
...some 73,000 of its employees in plants and laboratories across the nation last week, giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. made a pleasant offer: it will give 25? to every employee saving a dollar. Under the plan, similar to those of General Electric, Standard Oil (Indiana), Gulf Oil and Pure Oil, employees with two years of service can authorize payroll deductions of $12.50 to $37.50 monthly to be put into U.S. Savings Bonds, Series E, paying 3% interest. For every dollar the employee thus saves, Du Pont will contribute 25? to buy him company stock, with...
...arrived at Annapolis in 1950, put in an unsuccessful year, and then watched his crews sink right out from under him-on the flood-swollen waters of the Ohio River in June 1951, three Navy shells were wrecked. But Callow and Navy did a quick salvage job. From Meilahti Gulf, Finland to Newport Beach, Calif., they won race after race, including the 1952 Olympic championship...