Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaps in the fence are being filled. On the East Coast a chain of some 25 radar stations, called Texas Towers because they resemble oil-drilling platforms in the Gulf off Texas, are to be anchored on the continental shelf up to 125 miles offshore. On both coasts flights of RC-121Cs, "Pregnant Geese", bulging with six tons of radar equipment, will soon maintain patrols around the clock. Canada is already building the mid-Canada line of small, semiautomatic, electronic-detection stations along the 55th parallel, about 500 miles north of the U.S. border...
...when it always seemed to be April in Paris. Last week Ernest Hemingway was a long way from Paris and a long way from April. He was 55, but he looked older. He cruised in a black and green fishing boat off the coast of Cuba, near where the Gulf Stream draws a dark line on the seascape. The grey-white hair escaping from beneath a visored cap was unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint in his brown, curious eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal...
...private oilmen has been in Sicily. After drilling 20 dry holes, Mattel's A.G.I.P. pulled out of Sicily. In 1950 Sicily, which has a large amount of autonomy, allowed two dozen foreign and Italian firms in to hunt for oil under a new Sicilian law. By last week, Gulf Oil Corp. had brought in three promising wells with an average production of 350 tons daily in the Ragusa area (TIME, Jan. 25). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. has reported that it, too, has found oil. But when Gulf asked for permission to exploit its find last month, E.N.I...
Breeze on the Po. By last week, the issue of how long Gulf and Anglo-Iranian would be able to work their Sicilian finds was still not settled. Gulf has been given permission to exploit its field. But if Sicily's Socialists and Communists win the regional election this May, private oil companies may well be kicked out of Sicily altogether. However, an increasing number of thoughtful Italians are beginning to wonder if Mattel's state socialism will bring Italy its promised treasures. No one thinks that Enrico Mattei, who stands in well with Italy's political...
Shouts of "Fill her up!" echo daily over the foundation of one of Harvard's most stately dormitories. For the twentieth century and a Gulf gasoline station long ago replaced the first fashionable queen of the Gold Coast, Beck Hall...