Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians have the makings of a just claim to Tunisia-out of which they were rather crudely muscled by the French in 1881-they have a juster claim to a foothold on the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 15-mile-wide channel between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now dominated by French Somaliland on one side and British Aden on the other (see map). Those who control Bab-el-Mandeb control the southeastern vestibule to the Mediterranean...
...Italian Premier Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval signed a treaty ceding to Italy not only a piece of desert south of Libya but a strip between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea which would have given Italy a position on the Gulf of Aden, the island of Dumeria in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and a share in the French-owned Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad...
...More rugged than Brazil's coastal slopes are the rocky volcanic upjuts that wall Mexico City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled...
...front for Garner is snow-topped, dandyish Roy Miller of Corpus Christi, a well-paid lobbyist for Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. Roy Miller was of course the principal speaker at Red River's send-off last week. Perched on the rear stoop of the weather-blackened Garner shanty, he addressed the gathering of country folk from Possum Trot and Coon-Soup Hollow and assembled cameramen-anticipating most of the obvious objections to Garner-for-President: that he is too old (70 now; 72 by inauguration day in 1941) ; that he is reactionary by New Deal standards, that...
From this line the first weather message came from the Exporter Exermont, northeast of Bermuda in the Gulf Stream. ''Wind: south-south-west; force: six m.p.h.; weather: few clouds; barometer: 30.37; visibility: excellent; temperature: 84° F." Soon other reports came jumbling in. Hour later the course was marked with weather bulletins all across the southern route...