Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gulf between the President and "them" is great. One bitter New York investor, recalling how the stock market plunged after Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack, muttered last week: "I wonder what would happen if Kennedy had a heart attack.'' Donning cap and gown at Yale's commencement exercises. President Kennedy delivered a speech on economics that was characteristically stronger on style than on substance. And even though he was trying to hold out a hand of friendship to U.S. business, he could not resist a threat of the sort that has so shaken business confidence...
...other insurance companies. Currently, he is planning his most ambitious venture yet: creation of the Greatamerica Corp., which, with more than $1 billion in assets, will rank as the nation's largest insurance-management company. To begin with, Greatamerica will manage three Post-controlled companies-American Life, Gulf Life, and Franklin Life-but before he is through. Post hopes to add as many as ten more companies to its stable...
...faded, and who were now being ordered to put up more collateral. One of the few avowed buyers that day was penurious Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, who from London had ordered his brokers to pick up for him "40,000 or 50,000 shares" of oil company stock-Gulf, and his own Skelly, Tidewater, and Mission Development...
...trains stop at the city of Mahagonny, on the Gulf coast of the U.S., and no steamers list it as a port of call. But to informed, between-wars German theatergoers, the imaginary town was a metropolis of almost legendary fame-a strange amalgam of jazz-age New Orleans and beer-cellar Berlin...
...longer content with mere equality with the Arabs, he now insists on an autonomous Kurdish state within Iraq, running along the mountaintops from southern Turkey to the Persian Gulf; for this state he demands minority rights similar to those enjoyed "by minorities in such liberated countries as Switzerland, Yugoslavia, India and Czechoslovakia." The Russians are delighted to back Barzani's plan, which would give them access to the Middle Eastern Arab states and bring them closer to the Mediterranean...