Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another of Mr. Lovett's objections to the plan is that it connects each of the four proposed systems with the Gulf of Mexico. He regards east and west traffic as the controlling factor for transcontinental lines and believes that the plan would unduly favor Gulf ports...
...declaration of war. Vice Admiral McDonald, in command of the Blue defending fleet, which had been hurried through the Canal to the Pacific, tried to locate the Black fleet, but because of a lack of scout cruisers, was unable to do so. The Black fleet slipped into Culebra Gulf, Costa Rica, without his knowledge. From there, Black aeroplanes made a quick 385-mile flight to the Atlantic end of the Canal. No defending aeroplanes were at hand and the Gatun Spillway was blown to pieces by an avalanche of bombs. Then south from Culebra came the Black fleet, driving...
ILLINOIS: A conference of representatives of the Great Lakes states was held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall...
...Hines and other big railroad executives, contemplates a rail consolidation that would tie up every road west of the Mississippi Valley gateways into four great systems. As designated these would be the Burlington, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific systems, all reaching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to tap the Panama traffic and to the Pacific Coast to meet the Oriental trade. Net income and investment of each of these lines would be about the same...
...collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even on the Island, to the most southern boundary of Labrador on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, caribou, which are the same as reindeer, not only have been able to support themselves in immense numbers but even in spite of man and his modern equipment of destruction, there are still large numbers of them in the country. The question as to whether large herds...