Word: carribbean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oceanology. The hottest part of the Atlantic Ocean runs about 350 miles (5°) north of the Equator, from Africa to South America. Carribbean waters are just as warm (80° F.). Almost as warm, and much higher in level than the open ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. The combination of Gulf temperature and level with the West Indies volcanic action and the twirling of the Earth sets a current of warm water running north along the American coast to Newfoundland-the Gulf Stream. A wall of cold water separates the Gulf Stream from the North American continent...
Married. Elizabeth Stettinius, daughter of Edward R. Stettinius, partner, until his death in 1925, of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to Juan Terry Trippe of Manhattan, president of the Pan-American Airways, the Atlantic Gulf Carribbean Airways and the Southwestern Air Lines; at Locust Valley, Long Island...