Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
Last week the Southwestern wheat harvest was clogging Gulf ports. Kansas farmers were dumping their crops on the market. At Galveston a rail embargo had been declared. "HOLD YOUR WHEAT!" cried the Federal Farm Board in Washington as the fear grew that the lake ports would next be stuffed with an excessive harvest. Said Chairman Legge: "It seems unfortunate to crowd wheat on the market faster than existing facilities can handle it, resulting in cash prices much lower than contract prices for future delivery...
...stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia's huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep...
...flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist of repute, and once loved to chase eagles among mountain crags...
...long hose. Other creatures would fly up alongside with queer marks on the sides of their bodies. "HELLO SON? HERE IS PA AND MA JACKSON," said the marks one time, after the soaring one had been up long enough for a buzzard to sail from St. Louis to the Gulf and back by easy stages. The more-than-400-hour refueling endurance flight, the St. Louis Robin and Pilots Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, going on and on as last week ended, was a mystery to buzzards. What could it mean...