Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little side investigation conducted by the Senate has been looking into the Bureau of Internal Revenue. One of the matters gone into was the refund of taxes to the Gulf Oil Corporation in which Mr. Mellon is interested. It developed that a settlement had been made in regard to tax refunds on Feb. 28, 1921, a few days before Mr. Mellon took office. An agreement for a final settlement was made in August of last year under Section 1312 of the Revenue Act, by which the case cannot be reopened. The propriety of this is at present under inspection...
...Cabinet came to this decision after receiving the following resolution from a group of Army and Navy officers under general Pangalos : 1) That the gulf dividing the Hellenes is due to the Glucksburg dynasty; 2) That the same dynasty, for the sake of its family relationships, prevented Greece from making a timely entry into the late War on the side of the Allies, in spite of the opinion expressed by the people in the elections...
...first land, Thores, the western-most of the Azores, 2200 miles from Newport, was sighted by our tiny vessel in 17 days. On the whole the weather was good, but one bad gulf gale spell was responsible for our going without hot food for four days. We relied almost wholly upon the wind to move our ship, although it was equipped with a small two-cylinder engine, for emergency in calms...
...probably during his life on these islands that he conceived the idea that there might be a land across the Atlantic Ocean, for he found washed up on the beach by the gulf stream, which flows north from North America to sweep south past Spain to these islands, bits of wood unknown in Europe or Africa, also carved pieces which could not possibly have been the work of European hands...
...York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen?a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades the people of that region had bridged the gulf between a life like that of the border ballads?the life of the pioneer?and the modern life of telephone and radio. And the tale of how that enormous leap was made is as fascinating as anything in history...