Word: gulf
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...months, he has been preparing a diplomatic confrontation with the U.S., which fits that bill nicely. He put his plan into action when the Egyptian economy, which had been nearly bankrupted by his foreign adventures, was unexpectedly given a boost by the discovery of considerable oil deposits in the Gulf of Suez and in the western desert. They will bring Nasser $90 million this year and some $150 million a year by 1970. Ironically, the oil was discovered by U.S. oil companies and will be recovered by them...
...shells across the DMZ, ordered Navy vessels to interdict coastal targets and local shipping in Operation Sea Dragon. Two weeks ago, President Johnson gave Navy jets the "go" signal to attack power plants within the city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North's cement, the country's biggest rail-repair yard just 2.5 miles from the center of Hanoi, a power transformer seven...
...Smaller Continental Oil had a 26.3% increase in profits to $31 million. Jersey Standard, biggest of them all, was beset by lower product prices abroad and increased costs, and managed only to equal last year's first-quarter earnings of $294 million despite a 7% rise in revenues. Gulf and Phillips Petroleum, on the other hand, did so well that they increased dividends...
Company Shares Market Value I.B.M. 87,634 $30,716,000 Texaco 375,326 26,414,000 General Motors 284,089 22,869,000 Gulf Oil 341,884 17,094,000 Standard Oil (N.J.) 223,523 15,3667,000 Eastman Kodak 117,756 15,132,000 Middle South Utilities 542,114 13,621,000 Ford Motor 293,076 13,298,000 AT&T 210,688 11,588,000 Standard...
Staunch Backs. About two-thirds of all Communist aid comes through North Viet Nam's principal port of Haiphong, free of any interference by U.S. Seventh Fleet warships patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin. Most of the Russians' oil and machinery land on Haiphong's always crowded docks; even the nearby Chinese ship most of their aid to Haiphong rather than send it overland. Since February, there has been a change in the pattern of traffic at Haiphong; fewer Chinese ships are arriving and, as if by agreement between the two countries, more Soviet ships are taking their...