Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Future Program. A moderate tax reduction is possible. "But let it be remembered that tax reduction is possible solely on account of economy. Anybody can spend the money somebody else has saved." Flood control, Lakes-to-Gulf and St. Lawrence waterways, the Colorado River water & power project, the Columbia Basin, the Navy, and aviation and highways to make more intimate "our relationship with the vast territory between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn in a commercial way . . . will be some of the rewards of a judicious management of the national finances...
...Hearst sleuths have either done very excellent work in uncovering such a wasp's nest as the German plottings in Mexico in 1916, or they have followed a cold trail to a mare's nest. There is a wide gulf between what is acceptable to journalism and what is recorded by history. And the identity of this episode, no matter which way it turns, cannot help but prove again that verification is the divining...
After Chairman Reid's state had had its say, Louisianians were heard on the desirability of utilizing the Atchafalaya River as a natural spillway, and of building other spillways, to carry the gathered volume of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico by short cuts above New Orleans...
...methods whereby an iceberg is slowly disintegrated and destroyed by nature are varied. The pounding of the heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...
When an iceberg arrives at the Grand Banks it does one of three things. It either drifts off towards the East where it is destroyed by the Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...