Word: gulf
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Restricted Areas. With the object of preventing shipment of munitions to backward nations (chiefly in Africa), certain areas (including the Gulf of Persia on which many rifles are carried to the Northwest frontier) were placed in prohibitive zones. Persia, who saw her sovereignty threatened, was offended, left the Conference...
...Thomas W. Lamont was well up in the financial profession. Two years later, he became a partner of J. P. Morgan. But the gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in those days. The Nation was still a "little American," a Mugwump, a champion of "intellectual minorities" rather than an assailant of "the predatory interests." Thomas W. Lamont, banker, and Hammond Lamont, editor, were not the poles apart that "Wall Street" and The Nation have since become...
...gain was mainly due to heavy outflow in the Smackover district (Oklahoma), with lesser increases in the California, Gulf Coast, Kansas, Rocky Mountain and North Texas fields...
Geographically, the area affected by the merger stretches from the Canadian Border at Niagara to the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans and other Gulfports, and from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River...
...Loree has long been nationally known as an expert railroad operator, and also on occasion an expert fighter. He now appears in the new role of expert consolidator of railways. His proposed fifth Eastern system would stretch from New York to the Gulf as well as to the Great Lakes. It would consist of the Delaware & Hudson, and also the Kansas City & Southern, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Wabash, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western or Lehigh Valley or both, and perhaps other small roads...