Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek navy, is building the largest cargo ship ever built in the U.S., the largest tanker in the world [TIME, Feb. 22]. Admiral Nearchus (325 B.C.), explorer, built ships and sailed from the mouth of the Indus across the Arabian Sea and up to the head of the Persian Gulf. He and his crew reported to their commander in chief Alexander the Great in Iran, after a two-year voyage of tremendous hardship and valor. Could be ... a case of long-distance heredity...
...companies have formed a combine to market Iran's oil, in expectation of an early solution to the country's oil troubles. Stock in the group is held 40% by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., 40% by five U.S. firms operating in the Middle East-Standard Oil (N.J.), Gulf Oil, the Texas Co., Standard Oil of California, Socony-Vacuum Oil-and 20% by French and Royal Dutch Shell...
Despite this real problem, the instrument-packed boat has contributed a vast amount in an almost unknown field--the science of currents. Working mainly around the Gulf Stream, the boat has charted and recharted its shifting course in an efforts to get at the forces that underlie all currents. The traditional problem of charting the Gulf Stream from a moving boat at sea is slowly being solved by some new, and fanciful instruments. One, the bathythermograph, measures the temperature continuously as it is towed behind the ship. The sharp temperature variation between the Gulf Stream and the surrounding water supplies...
...Atlantis' exploration of the Gulf Stream, while solving some puzzling questions has raised others almost equally difficult. Perhaps the most curious phenomena yet observed are the great eddies of the Stream. These are huge loops in the twisting Stream that have broken off and floated away--still circulating. Sometimes these eddies reach remarkable size--the Atlantis tracked one in 1947 that was 200 mile long and some 60 miles wide...
...water motion visible. As the dye spreads, a remarkable pattern begins to form. Soon a complex of currents spread over the surface of the bowl; in some places there are tangled knots of dye, while in others, such as up the Atlantic Coast, the broad smooth flow of the Gulf Stream appears. This unusual instrument has apparently succeeded in duplicating the major flow patterns of the world's oceans. It has not only already confirmed observed patterns, but has shown other patterns which are as yet only beginning to come under observation. Compared with the sophisticated tools of modern physics...