Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every U.S. President since Harding has urged construction of a St. Lawrence Seaway to link the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and open the Midwest to world commerce. But railroads, private power companies, Atlantic ports and Gulf Coast ports have fought the idea with bitterness since its inception. Seaway plans, furthermore, have included a vast public hydroelectric project, which was not only unpopular in many quarters in the past, but brought the cost of construction close to half a billion dollars. Congress has turned down one seaway proposal after another...
...Hole Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole, Mass. Originally developed by Henry Stommel and Donald Parson, the thermometer measures the long-wave radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape...
...with the feature article describing our work which you printed on Thursday, April 16th. This article written by Mr. Sutton represents a high standard of cooperation between reporter and scientist in the difficult communication of scientific data to the layman. News handling of this sort will bridge the threatening gulf between the technical scientist and the interested citizen. Ogden R. Lindsley...
...petroleum industry, Standard Oil (N.J.) saw its profits drop 4.5% to $126 million. But Socony-Vacuum had a 7.3% gain to $44 million. The net profits of Standard Oil of California ($42,016,-201), Texas Co. ($42,681,806) and Gulf ($35,629,000) remained about the same...
...succeed aging (72) J. (for James) Frank Drake as chairman and chief executive officer of Gulf Oil Corp., President Sidney A. Swensrud, 52, moved up to chairman, while Drake became executive committee chairman. Gulf's new president is William K. Whiteford, 52, who in the early '205 started as a roughneck in the Southern California oilfields, rose rapidly in production jobs with independents, was chairman and president of Canada's British-American Oil Co., Ltd. in 1951 when he quit to join Gulf as executive vice president...