Word: gulf
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Still unsolved is a problem involving Curtis' Ontario timberland, which borders on the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. copper strike. That potential asset has been tied up by a stockholders' suit charging that the Curtis directors "unreasonably and fraudulently benefited" by concealing news of the strike until they had voted themselves sizable stock options...
...officials in Saigon were reported to be disturbed by his suggestion, and Khanh was told to forget such ideas and concentrate on winning the war in South Vietnam. But press reports indicate that the idea of an attack against Hanoi has become more palatable in the wake of the Gulf of Tonkin affair and the steady degeneration of military stability...
Bienhoa became all the more tempting to the Communists after the Tonkin Gulf clashes, when more than 30 big B57 jet bombers flew in from Pacific bases as stand-by weapons in case a long-range attack on North Viet Nam or even China-should be called...
...centrifugal pumps, 36% of its electric motors), but also symbolize the gradual change in India's old image as a mere exporter of raw materials. Nearly 20% of Kirloskar's diesels are sold abroad, from West Germany to California, and from the West Indies to the Persian Gulf. Kirloskar plants also turn out a neatly complementary array of products that range from air compressors to vertical turret lathes, from sluice valves to torque converters. But Kirloskar is proudest of his contribution to the revolution in farm methods that food-shy India so badly needs. Although four-fifths...
...answer to a question after the speech in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Lamont called the Gulf of Tonkin incident "one of the most improbable tales I've heard in several years." He charged that the affair was really "just a frameup by the military designed to make the United States more involved in Vietnam...