Word: gulf
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...rich "tidelands" off U.S. shores to the states instead of the Federal Government-just as Ike had promised to do in his campaign. But the law had a basic flaw. It set a three-mile limit for Atlantic and Pacific states, yet allowed the states on the Gulf of Mexico-which has most of the under water oil-to claim up to three leagues (10.3 miles) of offshore land, provided that those boundaries existed "at the time such State became a member of the Union, or as heretofore approved by Congress." Who was to untie the knots of history? Being...
...find historic precedent for Texas' claim, the court dug back to the Congress-approved treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War in 1848 and extended the Mexico-Texas border three leagues into the Gulf.* Florida was also entitled to three leagues because it claimed that boundary in its post-Civil War constitution, rammed through by a carpetbagger and scalawag-packed state constitutional convention and approved by Congress in 1868. Because Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama made considerably less extravagant claims back in the 1860s, they got considerably less from the Supreme Court...
...believed that the Soviet Union would not break the monopoly for many years. Less confident, Peter King set up an unofficial sort of watch for Soviet A-bomb tests. He arranged to have Navy planes bring him once-a-month jugs of rain water from Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, relatively close to the U.S.S.R. He called his low-key project Operation Rainbarrel...
...Evans, a distant cousin of Pittsburgh's moneyed Mellons, has made a personal fortune on his own estimated at $80 million. After graduating from Yale in 1931, he got a start as a $100-a-month clerk in the office of William L. Mellon, then head of Gulf Oil Corp. Showing budding financial genius, Evans rented Gulf stock from Mellon at 3% interest, used the stock as collateral to borrow money to play the market. His profits he plowed back into Gulf stock, used his returns to buy into H. K. Porter, a faltering manufacturer of steam locomotives...
Gone were the illusions of summitry, and gone with them was what President Eisenhower, after the 1955 summit conference in Geneva, had described as the dangerous and illusory hope that one week of negotiations could eliminate "a gulf as wide and deep as the difference between individual liberty and regimentation." Instead of trying to build peace from the summit down, the U.S. could now set about building it from the base up, by creating bold yet practical programs for helping the backward nations march toward freedom and abundance, by winning the uncommitted nations to commitment, by keeping...