Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's 220,000 service stations changed hands or closed down, the highest turnover rate in U.S. retailing. In Chicago, where the battle is sharpest, half of the stations changed hands. The war has hit the major oil companies where it hurts most: the profits of Gulf, Sun, Indiana Standard and Sinclair were down by 9% to 24% in this year's first half...
Extolling the general. House Speaker John McCormack, read off a list of his great battles that reverberated like an army drum roll: "The Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St.-Mihiel and Sedan; Bataan, Corregidor, New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Manila and Borneo, Pusan and Inchon." Then McCormack presented Mac-Arthur with an engrossed copy of a special resolution, passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress, that expressed the "thanks and appreciation of the Congress and the American people" for his leadership "during and following World War II," and for his many years of effort to strengthen the ties between the Philippines...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The account of Hurricane Carla's devastating visit to Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast; narrated by Dane Clark. Repeat...
...derricks weathered under the south western sun; tramp steamers rusted in their harbor slips. But the visitor from New York heeded neither the heat nor the scenery. Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had come to the Texas Gulf Coast port of Beaumont for only one reason ? to run down a rumor that the city's two news papers were for sale. Beyond that possibility, Beaumont held no charms for the little man from the big city. And when the rumor proved false, the visitor could not get out of town fast enough...
...which are carried on our balance sheet at a very nominal figure." Among them: 48.3% of the stock of New Orleans' South Coast Corp., which owns 89 square miles of Louisiana sugar land including 4,000 acres of potential industrial sites along the new Houma Canal to the Gulf of Mexico...