Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short hoist from sea to helicopter was not without its danger. Earlier in the week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died...
...Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek, Utah; San Francisco Chemical Co. will dig and process phosphates near Vernal, Utah...
...trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan, until, after a passage of 1,400 miles, it empties with a gout of reddish, mineral-stained water into the Gulf of California...
Other companies had happier news to report. Standard Oil's earnings jumped to 89? from 1960's 79? a share; Gulf was up to 92? from 79? a year ago. Both Philip Morris and American Tobacco reported record-breaking first-quarter sales. Philip Morris made $1.21 a share v. $1.15 a year ago, while American Tobacco increased to $1.11 from from 98? last year...
Although it had been reported that the Company wished to retain its present station primarily because of its model construction, Wiggins declared that such an argument has not entered the negotiations recently. He noted, however, that Gulf was worried about "what they call their Colonial architecture...