Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decks in 120° heat, they were given neither food nor water, drank one another's urine to survive. While the ship was still off the Philippines, U.S. bombers blasted it, killing some 300 of the American prisoners. Survivors who swam ashore were hauled by boxcars to Lingayen Gulf and loaded aboard another freighter, which was forced to dock at Formosa with engine trouble. Six days later, U.S. planes bombed the island, killing outright 100 more Americans. In the next three days hundreds of wounded men died for lack of medical attention...
...Senator then cited the attack on U.S. ships in the Tonkin Gulf by three or four North Vietnamese PT boats ("like a 14-year-old boy with a bean shooter attacking Cassius Clay") that spurred U.S. escalation...
Ostlund's findings, which he reported last week to a Miami conference on tropical oceanography, were derived from samples of water vapor he collected in September during harrowing "hurricane hunter" plane flights through Betsy, the storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Though the amount of tritium in atmospheric water vapor over the central Atlantic and the Caribbean is usually from eight to ten times the quantity in sea water, the concentration in the samples Ostlund collected decreased as the plane approached the storm center. In the vapor in the cloud wall surrounding the storm...
Charles Bluhdorn, 39, Manhattan-based chairman of Gulf & Western Industries, a widely diversified company specializing in auto parts, began as a penniless immigrant. Now he is worth more than $15 million...
Today, Bluhdorn's $182 million-a-year Gulf & Western makes and sells auto parts throughout the U.S., controls 57 subsidiary companies, and has branched into the manufacture of jet-engine parts, guitars, and survival equipment for spacemen. Through his own outside investments, Bluhdorn also controls the East's 197-store Bohack supermarket chain, and is the third largest shareholder in Ward Foods...