Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast cities from Boston south always have a few cases. They appear in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. Alabama, Georgia and Florida have quite the largest number sick with typhus. But Mississippi or Louisiana have had none reported to health officers. Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston and Houston (among Gulf cities) have had their mild affliction, and the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to Mercedes. On the Pacific Coast only Los Angeles has reported a considerable number of cases; the interior of the U. S. has practically none...
Bright over the Gulf of Mexico blazed the sun. A small white boat, one-masted, drifted into the tidy harbor of Tarpon Springs, Fla. On a beam reaching from the mast to the flagstaff astern, hung sponges strung on cords six feet in length. It was a Monday. Tuesday was auction...
Into the cold grey waters of the Gulf of Finland at Leningrad, last week, were launched two hulking freight boats. Each weighed 5,340 tons. Sister ships, they are two of the largest freighters in the built-in-Russia Soviet commercial fleet...
...Alexander Alexandrovitch Maximow, 54, famed anatomist, blood & tissue specialist of the University of Chicago (since 1922), onetime member of the Imperial Military Academy of Medicine in Petrograd, whose escape from Bolshevist Russia with his wife and sister ended in a flight on a smugglers' sled across the Gulf of Finland; of heart disease; in Chicago...
Dunedin, Fla., city of 1,500 on the sandy Gulf coast, last week made itself memorable among advertising communities. It lacks the industrial opportunities of Dallas, Oakland and similar growing cities. Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights...