Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly every industry. From their 1969 peaks, shipping stocks are off 46%, airlines and motion pictures 40%, aerospace 39%, sugar companies 38%. Losses are only slightly less among coal, copper, textile, oil and insurance shares. Most of the leading conglomerate corporations have dropped disastrously: Litton is off 43%, Gulf & Western 50% and Ling-Temco-Vought...
...started with. George Ratliff Jr., 39, a Pittsburgh steel-company engineer, began 1969 with a portfolio worth $16,900, has seen its value drop $2,500. He describes himself as a "fundamentalist" who invests only in securities that he thinks offer sound values. Among his losses: $1,000 in Gulf & Western convertible bonds that he bought because he considered them "a perfect hedge against a falling market...
...quality motor oil is only 80% to 85% petroleum; the rest is a complex blend of chemicals that are added to keep it from thinning out, prevent engine deposits and neutralize the acids that are byproducts of combustion. The big oil companies - such as Gulf, Mobil and Texaco - work close ly with auto producers to devise formulas that will meet the specific needs of each engine, depending upon its horsepower and the climate in which the car is usually driven. Still, many motorists attempt to outguess the experts by using additives, which are usually made by companies other than...
...million in stock and cash-the Italian firm was in shaky condition as a result of an unprofitable project in Egypt. Since then CTIP's net worth has risen 450%, to $5,000,000. It has won important new business in Latin America, Spain and Scandinavia, and added Gulf and British Petroleum as major clients...
...Orleans gives you the feeling of having the whole United States balancing on your fulcrum. I have a very strong sense of the Mississippi River being the trunk of the America tree. When the country falls over, New Orleans will drift out into the Gulf as the stump...