Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Tucumcari, N.Mex., Anaconda Copper, Gulf Oil and others were in the field, and the county recorder's office was swamped with 75 new claims in two days, following an Atomic Energy Commission announcement that a radioactive area had been discovered...
...plans for giving, in 1951 the Ford Motor Co. announced a program that is now not only financing about 70 scholarships a year for the sons and daughters of its employees, but also giving $500 annually to each private college or university the students happen to choose. The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad has given more than $185,000 since 1951 to private colleges along its route. Du Pont, a longtime giver, now pours $2,500 grants into the chemistry departments of 50 different campuses, expects to give in various ways $800,000 this year. The Radio Corp. of America will...
...simple idyl, but after its bloody, tragic ending it takes on the shape of legend. In Joshua, which takes place during World War II, an imaginative Negro youngster proves his courage by doing what the Bayou fishermen, including his father, do not dare do: he paddles down to the Gulf where surfaced German subs have fired at the fishing boats. One Summer is a beautifully effective story about a young white boy's first experience with death. Author Grau is short on plot, long on intuition, and lyrical without stumbling into sentimentality. Her ambition is "to write an even...
...Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc. and Texas-U. S. Chemical Co., which jointly bought the big (197,000 tons yearly) plant at Port Neches, Texas. Each company also bought a smaller polymer plant at Port Neches. (Cost of the three plants: $94,347,000; book value...
SYNTHETIC RUBBER with all the properties (including the same molecular structure) of natural, tree-grown rubber will be produced by Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc. The new synthetic, which could make the U.S. completely self-sufficient in rubber during wartime, can be substituted for natural rubber now needed in such strategic items as airplane and truck tires...