Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East and food shortages in Hawaii, and left frustrated federal mediators awash in a sea of conflicting charges and demands. Ranged on one side of the dispute were the owners of 850 of the nation's 941 merchant ships, negotiating in three separate groups-East Coast, Gulf Coast and West Coast. On the other stood 50,000 working seamen and 30,000 unemployed seamen, represented by two big unions and three smaller ones...
...Seafarers International Union, headed by freighter-sized (220 lbs.) Paul Hall. The S.I.U. centers its power on Atlantic and Gulf Coast tankers and other bulk cargo ships...
...Benning, and the isolation of dozens of other dreary installations. But for the past six years, the 800 members of Louisiana's 159th Fighter Group have barely been able to wait for their training sessions to begin at Gulfport, a resort town on the silvery sands of the Gulf Coast...
Boating is so popular in Texas because it is so improbable. Although Gulf Coast residents have long had access to water, most other Texans until fairly recently have not been able to find enough water to skip a stone. But in the past 20 years, government dams and flood-control projects have created scores of man-made lakes that dot Texas' parched and sweltering flatlands (there are only about half a dozen natural lakes in Texas). Because of Texas' excellent, uncrowded highways, distance is no object. One industrialist trailed his cabin cruiser behind...
...take on the responsibility for maintaining law and order in his state. Patterson's office declared the Governor unavailable to the U.S. Attorney General. Later, at Bobby's urging. President Kennedy himself tried to call Patterson -but the office said he was somewhere "out on the Gulf" and could not be reached...