Word: gulf
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...billion last year, or nearly $2.8 billion higher than Ford's. Two other corporations among the top ten also moved up. IBM, with sales of $5.3 billion and a lock on the biggest part of the world's computer sales, climbed from ninth place to seventh. Gulf Oil, with sales of $4.2 billion, moved from tenth to ninth...
...United States on a state visit, for the purpose of negotiating a $600 million purchase of weapons from the U. S. The Shah met with President Johnson Tuesday. The 49-year old ruler is reported to be upset with the planned withdrawal of British defenses from the Persian Gulf late...
Perhaps, the gulf between the Class of '43 and the graduates of 1968 is not as wide and profound as one may initially beliee. A visiting Nieman Fellow by the name of Fred Neal wrote in the CRIMSON in 1943, "Harvard's reputation in Washington is not only academic. Particularly in that maelstrom called Capitol Hill, Harvard is almost synonymous with long hair, unworkable theories, and those vague activities described as 'un-American...
...product does not mean that sulphur is unprofitable. On the contrary, a phenomenal growth in demand-with nearly half of total U.S. production going into fertilizers-has sent sulphur prices soaring. But sulphur's very popularity threatens to deplete low-cost minable deposits. By diversifying into other minerals, Gulf Resources has also been minimizing its dependence on foreign-based facilities. As a result of its mergers, 80% of the company's assets are now located...
...from the American University of Beirut, decided against a career in medicine, went to work as a junior clerk for the Arabian American Oil Co. He was eventually named head of the transportation department, given the job of providing food and equipment for Aramco crews prospecting along the Persian Gulf. Trucks carrying the supplies either bogged down in the desert or were stopped by tribesmen; ships sometimes went aground. Abu-Haidar decided to switch to airplanes but Aramco, while interested, was unwilling to get too deeply into aviation...