Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...otherwise sail on the tack that will take you straight to Bermuda." Malay began by standing off on the port tack until she was nearly 45 miles west of the rhumb line, a straight-line course to St. David's Head. For a day she drifted in the Gulf Stream, while the crew fished and swam. Out of the stream, Malay worked westward again before she came about on the starboard tack for the last long beat to Bermuda...
TIDELANDS OIL HUNT, spurred by the Supreme Court decision giving mineral rights to the states, is going on at a record pace. In the past twelve months, oilmen have spent more than $100 million for leases and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, have 30 drilling rigs now in operation, with plans for 70 by fall...
...flies to his 75,000-acre Acuňa Ranch in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains. It is comfortably furnished but it has no phone, is on no road, and can be reached only by plane. Murchison likes to hunt on his 1,000-acre island in the Gulf of Mexico. He and his wife are now putting the finishing touches on a $100,000 farm near his old home town of Athens. To landscape the 2,000-acre site, he has planted 10,000 pine seedlings and 10,000 strawberry plants. Says a friend: "Murchison does almost everything...
...Murchison and Richardson had all their money tied up in leases nobody wanted. Says Murchison: "We almost lost our taw." They split up, held creditors off as best they could. One even hounded them on a hunting trip; they left him stranded on an island in the Gulf while they fled to the mainland. Ultimately, the price of oil went up; they paid their debts. Says Murchison:"If you are honest and if you are trying, most creditors will play ball...
...asked U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon whether the U.S. could help Dienbienphu with carrier-plane strikes. The U.S. refused, explained that such intervention could only be taken within some framework of "united action." The French were surprised, particularly as they knew that six U.S. carriers had been moved into the Gulf of Tonkin...