Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases from Egypt to Iraq, and does not intend to have the same thing happen in Aden. But last week it was having some trouble holding...
Among the world's ailing industries, few are hurting worse than shipbuilding. The demand for shipping that was whetted by the new Persian Gulf oilfields faded abruptly in 1959, when the U.S. put quotas on oil imports. Result: a worldwide glut of cargo space. To glean what new orders there are, the big U.S. and European shipyards have had to slice deeply into their profits to come up with low bids, but they are still losing ground to the front-running, highly efficient and low-paying Japanese...
...Miles to Anywhere. Texas A. & M. is the hub of a 24,801-acre statewide "college system" with ten parts, including Prairie View (Negro) A. & M., the new Gulf Coast Maritime Academy, and the entire Texas Forest Service, which Texas A. & M. administers. A. & M.'s campus computer facilities are among the best in the U.S. It has the biggest activation-analysis lab in the world. It recently developed a new tomato plant tough enough to be machine-harvested, yet obedient enough to grow always to the same height. Among its faculty eminences are top experts on everything from...
...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...began to get rid of their excess gasoline by wholesaling it to private-brand operators, who then underpriced the big firms' stations by 2? or 3? per gal. The independents began to grab off 20% of the business in some areas. Last year, to protect their own stations, Gulf introduced its "subregular" Gulftane, and Sun brought out its Blue Sunoco 190, which compete directly with the independents' prices. Other major oil companies also cut prices, financed the local fights by keeping prices high at their stations on superhighways...