Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Corporation (AGWI ) . Against this company, for four years (1917 to 1920) was assessed a tax of $9,913,841, including a penalty of $830,808 for fraud. It was charged that the company was worth $9,909,407 but, by concealing its assets, managed to compromise the tax for $2,600,000- a loss to the Government of more than...
...brirdled cow. When the sad white pup ceases to moan up into the victrola, when the tire twins stop rubbing their eyes and get to bed, when that inexecrably good-looking rounder stops boasting of the mile he never walked, when the world has used up all that good gulf gasoline, then the tired eyes of city dwellers may no longer be tortured by the garish extravagances of color, and their consciences will no longer be troubled by curt, unanswerable commands...
...sons and daughters to the privately endowed colleges, while the less favored sections in the economic scale would gravitate toward the less expensive schools. A traditional separation might arise between wealth and poverty; and the gap, at present passed with not too great difficulty, might be widened into a gulf...
Small tables between the seats in the passenger car were loaded with roast beef, spaghetti, Navy beans. No smoking and no throwing of anything overboard were almost the only severities to be endured. But when the Gulf was reached, the air grew bumpy, and fog was replaced by warm drizzling rain, changing to a downpour when the islands were approached. The Los Angeles had passed through fog and rain without difficulty, but when the port of Hamilton was actually sighted at 4:45 on Saturday morning, she was water-logged and very heavy. The S.S. Patoka, with...
...Howell was on hand with another proposal: that a committee of Congress be authorized to investigate the proposed merger by the Van Sweringens of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley Railways, as well as the control of the Gulf Coast lines acquired by the Missouri Pacific...