Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kansas City Southern owns 788 miles of main-line track between Kansas City and the Gulf of Mexico, carries coal, oil and farm products mainly originating in other territories. L.& A. owns 573 miles of trackage, 371 of which lie between New Orleans and Hope, Ark., with an affiliate branch running to Dallas, Texas. Most of its freight-quarry products, refined oil and sugar-originates in its own territory. The two roads, pee-wee but prosperous, meet at Shreveport, La. K.C.S. sets its total assets at $138,738,553; L.& A., at $35,514,566. In 1937 K.C.S...
...merger, subject to ICC and stockholders' approval, will give K.C.S. complete possession of the shortest route between Kansas City and New Orleans (it now shares it with L.& A.), will also link Louisiana Gulf ports with eastern Texas. Said Harvey Couch: "A substantial increase in payrolls may be expected to result from increased business of the unified roads...
Like others of its kind this pit did not remain stationary. Usually they move northwestward till they strike the coast of Florida or the Gulf, then turn northeastward, out over the Atlantic. Last week's pit started on this route, swerved northward before it reached the coast of Florida. Off Cape Hatteras it appeared to swing northeastward but its path was blocked because an unusually broad high pressure plateau covered nearly the whole north Atlantic. Following the course of least resistance the pit swept northward into a low-pressure trough-across Long Island, through the heart of New England...
...Naturalist William Beebe, readers usually have some trouble getting accustomed to the strange cast of characters-the moray eels, zebra gobies, angelfish, filensh. amphipods, triglid fish, bubble shells, blennies, opaleyes, nudibranchs and other odd forms of life he writes about. In the Galapagos Islands, in Bermuda or on the Gulf of California; everything reminds Naturalist Beebe of the teeming variety of life and the consistency of its patterns of struggle; in the stomach of a sea bird he finds a half-digested fish, with a smaller fish in its stomach, while mud from the bottom of the sea turns...
Zaca Venture tells, with many digressions, of a round-trip cruise of the 118-foot Zaca from San Diego down the coast of Lower California and up the Gulf of California to Guaymas with pauses for dredging, diving, fishing. Although it begins with an account of Beebe's sensational discovery that there are snipefish on both the east and west coasts of the U. S.-a discovery whose exact scientific importance escapes the lay reader-it quickly gives way to discussions of Mr. Beebe's first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants...