Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time, Bechtel was also gaining experience in oil-refinery engineering and pipeline construction, which paid off handsomely in postwar years. Since then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building the transalpine line between Trieste and Ingolstadt in Bavaria, completed last year...
...Canaan from Sidon, the city of the king," runs the translation. "Commerce has cast us on this distant shore, a land of mountains." The tablet tells of ten Phoenician trading vessels that embarked from the ancient port of Ezion-geber (near the modern Israeli town of Elath) on the Gulf of Aqaba, possibly in the 7th century B.C. Presumably, they sailed through the Red Sea, rounded the tip of Africa, and were caught by a fierce ocean storm. Driven into the South Equatorial Current, one of the ships must have been swept across the Atlantic to the coast of Brazil...
...everywhere by student upheaval. Paris last week captured the record for the largest student riots so far in 1968. While the city prepared for the opening of Vietnamese peace talks, students staged the sharpest street fighting since the end of World War II. By week's end, the gulf between the government and students-who were joined by France's major unions-had widened into a serious anarchical challenge to Charles de Gaulle's government...
...Standard Oil of New Jersey, the industry's front runner, increased profits 12.7%, to $320 million-another record quarter like the ones at Mobil (up 14.8%), Texaco (13.3%), Shell (13%), California Standard (10.5%), Gulf (10.1%) and Cities Service...
...atmosphere in Congress this week is like that of a Gulf Cost city awaiting a hurricane. To most Congressmen and Senators, the forces converging on the Capitol from the ghettoes and backwaters of the nation seem elemental, irrational, to be endured for as long as necessary and then, if possible, to be forgotten...