Word: morro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...traditionally controlled all drilling on the shelf beyond three miles, except off Texas and Florida, which maintain a ten-mile jurisdiction.-The decision, written by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, involves 29 tracts, totaling 165,000 acres, in the Santa Maria basin off the California coast between Morro Bay and Point Conception, northwest of Santa Barbara. Geologists have estimated there may be as much as 1 billion bbl. of oil in the entire basin. The sections had initially been freed up for lease by the Interior Department in 1981. But California managed to block the proposed arrangement...
...tragedies of the Morro Castle in 1934 and the Yarmouth Castle in 1965 taught valuable lessons that were well learned. The success of the Prinsendam rescue attests the fact. Let us all salute the disciplined and courageous men and women who followed the procedures in this great sea rescue...