Word: gulf
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Cheap & Easy. No one knows exactly how much sulphur lies under Mexico's narrow neck, but the deposits are estimated to be immense, second only to the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast deposits. So far, the three U.S. companies have spent $10 million on plants, roads, pipelines and port facilities to tap deposits on 30,000 acres, only a fraction of their leaseholds. Mexican Gulf Sulphur Co. has built a plant with a 200,000-ton annual capacity; Pan American Sulphur Co. has put up another worth $5,000,000 with a 500,000-ton capacity; Gulf Sulphur Corp...
TEXAS TIDELANDS have produced their third well since drilling resumed last year southeast of Corpus Christi. New well brought in by Gulf Oil Corp. is at 11,540 ft. (under 48 ft. of water) about nine miles off Port Aransas in Nueces County...
...been said that England is separated from the rest of the world by a vast gulf called cricket. If this is true, a small bridge was built across the abyss on Monday night when the Harvard Cricket Club held its first meeting of the 1955 season. For the first time since the reformation of the club three years ago it discovered enough prospective members at its organizational meeting to fill an 11-man team...
Serge was a precocious boy whose doting mother pampered him and made him wear sailor suits until he was 13. After the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, father Rubinstein, according to Serge, lined his greatcoat with rubles and jewels, and raced off across the frozen Gulf of Finland in a troika. The family followed him four months later, and ten-year-old Serge arrived in Stockholm with money pinned all over his undershirt, and a big sapphire hung around his neck...
ITALIAN OIL WELL has been brought in by Petrosud (privately owned by Italy's Montecatini and Gulf Oil Corp.) with oil at 2,200 ft. in the Abruzzi area 85 miles northeast of Rome, first find in the district. The new well is a big victory for private oilmen in their fight against Italy's state-owned A.G.I.P. (TIME, Nov. 29); the state company had previously explored the area for oil and failed to find a drop...