Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mariners that frequent the Gulf of Mexico region dread these annual hurricanes. Their source is usually in the Caribbean, where an initial whirling motion is caused by the expansion of moist air over tropical waters. They then generally pursue a northern course gradually increasing in intensity so long as they remain over water. Curiously, due to lower barometric pressure on the southernmost side, the southern semicircle of these hurricanes is comparatively harmless. Mariners refer to the northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding...
Obviously, Miami was in the "dangerous semi-circle." Key West received the "navigable semi-circle," therefore was damaged inconsiderably. After striking Miami from the northeast, the hurricane made a sort of quarter-turn on its heel, proceeded northwesterly over the Gulf after passing out to sea near Tampa...
...over, is prettier than our own? The proud boats carried produce as well as gallantry; the niggers who fiddled helped, in their off moments, to carry bales aboard; and when the boats quit the river it was because a new and quicker freight had joined Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico. Some Eastern financiers had built the Illinois Central...
...Havana, one Angel Arango pleaded and pleaded with air pilots to take him aloft. He wanted to step off the wing of a plane and drop into the Gulf of Mexico from an altitude sufficient to test a combination parachute and buoyant belt he had invented. Pilots old and pilots young refused to budge. To them the device did not look practical. Last week, however, Senor Arango found his man, clambered joyfully into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute...
Died. Commander Oscar Cosulich, mighty builder of the Italian merchant marine; in the Gulf of Porto Rosa at Trieste, while trying to save his six-year-old son from drowning. After the father went down the son grasped the cutter, was rescued...