Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than the gulf between these men keeps the papers mute. Pride and prejudice are deeply involved on both sides. The I.T.U. is a proud union, with roots buried deep in the 18th century, when some New York City compositors agitated for a pay increase to $1 a day. The I.T.U. printer considers his job a personal possession, like a car or a house-not a work privilege to be conferred and withdrawn by management...
...Clinton's historic New York State Barge Canal, the Hudson River, and the sheltered coastal route that amateur sailors take south to Florida. In the U.S. heartland, the Mississippi and its tributaries afford unbroken passage from Pittsburgh west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from Minneapolis south to the Gulf. In the Far West, locks built into the McNary and Bonneville dams allow riverboats to chuff through bleak coulees 365 miles into the interior of Washington...
...fruit and coffee. Columbia River towns like Pasco and Umatilla have become blossoming grain ports. Biggest winner of all is bustling New Orleans, which in 1961 boosted its cargo business 8% to a record 61.3 million tons. Serving as the connecting point between the Mississippi River complex and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, New Orleans boasts that at least a thousand barges are always within half a day's travel of its docks...
...railroads have as colorful a history as the 111-year-old Illinois Central, whose 6,466 miles of track run like steel spines down mid-America from Chicago to the Gulf Coast. Young Abe Lincoln was a lawyer for the I.C. for seven years. Civil War generals such as the Union's George B. McClellan and the Confederacy's P.G.T. Beauregard were once officials of the line. The real-life Casey Jones was an I.C. engineer at the turn of the century: "Casey's daughter fell on her knees / 'Mama, mama how can it be / Papa...
...largest single common stock holding, though, is Texaco Oil, which presently is worth $17.2 million at the market. IBMis second with a market value of 14 million. These are followed by AT&T, and three more oil companies: Gulf, worth $11.1 million; Standard Oil of California, worth $10.1 million; and Standard Oil of New Jersey, worth $9.8 million...