Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful new football stadium seating 46,000; our coliseum which will seat 10,000; I wish you could see the 35,000 acres of water known as the Great Pearl River reservoir, which will be completed within the next year and see the beautiful, scenic, historic Gulf Coast where we have the longest man-made beach in the world--A 23 mile sand beach...
...Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock strike was one of the longest and costliest in U.S. maritime history. It left 100,000 workers idle, including 62,000 striking longshoremen, cost $700 million and created dislocations, small or large, in almost every industry in the nation. Last week, after 33 days, the strike ended-but the settlement caused almost as much commotion and concern as the strike itself...
Employers and the International Longshoremen's Association agreed to the settlement last Friday after a 34-day strike against East and Gulf Coast ship-owners...
...impact of the strike was felt at the other end too. Puerto Rican industry, cut off from mainland suppliers, began to feel raw-materials shortages. The government of Pakistan waited impatiently for 100,000 tons of surplus U.S. wheat marooned in Gulf Coast ports. In West Germany 78,000 Volkswagen workers got an unwelcome two-day vacation from their assembly lines because the German auto company had 10,000 vehicles stranded in U.S. ports and another 5,300 waiting shipment on piers in Bremen and Hamburg...
...Texas (pop. 48,040) is a hot, sleepy Mexican border city with almost no hinterland. As near to Panama ity as to New York, it is visited each day by but one train, two planes, and practically no tourists. But thanks to a 17-mile ship channel to the Gulf of Mexico and the imagination of a profane, one-time U-boat commander named Friederich Wilhelm ("Fritz") Hofmokel, Brownsville today is a flourishing seaport that last year handled 4,685,000 tons of cargo. More than half that tonnage consisted of low-grade Mexican oil imported under a unique arrangement...