Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then hurled the bodies of Díaz and Franco into the Straits and swung the ship toward Cuba. Two hours later, the diesel stopped. Ramírez set off in the dinghy. Inevitably, the Gulf Stream carried him back toward Miami...
...invasion, a cousin, friends, fathers or fiances. Some of my friends were killed in combat on the marshes, others died by suffocation inside a sealed truck in which hundreds were packed for an eight-hour trip to Havana. Others had a more cruel death as they drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks. Some were fortunate enough to be sent to prison for 1½ years and, after suffering the most inhuman psychological tortures, to be reunited with whatever remained of their families. Was all this caused by the lack of nerve of a soft President...
Shortly before 10:45 a.m. on April 16, 1964, Thomas S. Lament stepped away from the Manhattan board room of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. and phoned an officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., of which Lamont, 66, is retired vice chairman. The Texas Gulf board meeting had broken up, and Director Lamont advised the banker to watch the Dow-Jones ticker for good news about the company. Ever since, Lamont has been troubled by that phone call...
...bank officer, Executive Vice President Longstreet Hinton, interpreted Lament's message as a confirmation of rumors, which had been circulating for days on Wall Street, that Texas Gulf had struck an ore bonanza near Timmins, Ont. Between 10:45 and 10:59, Morgan Guaranty bought 8,000 shares of Texas Gulf for its accounts, including 3,000 shares for the Nassau County (N.Y.) Hospital. Morgan Guaranty paid between 321 and 34 for stock that rose to a high of 37 that day (last week it closed...
According to Lamont, on the night before the Texas Gulf board meeting, a Canadian weekly, The Northern Miner, front-paged the story of the ore strike-under a headline TEXAS GULF COMES UP WITH A "MAJOR." Copies of the paper had arrived in Manhattan and Toronto brokerage houses well before his phone call'. At 9:40 a.m. on the day of the meeting, Ontario Mines Minister G: C. Wardrope summoned Toronto reporters and confirmed the find. By 10:20, reporters at a Texas Gulf press conference in New York were phoning in their stories of the find...