Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Navy cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, the Philadelphia slid out of the harbor into the open sea. headed for the Caribbean. Plans called for several days' Gulf-Stream fishing...
...customs collector in Davao, main town of Mindanao Island, reported last week that a number of unidentified vessels had anchored in Davao Gulf-unidentified because the nearest U. S. naval base with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week...
Another move was an Iranian hint that His Britannic Majesty's naval forces in the Persian Gulf were no longer welcome to make their base in Iranian waters. Result: The British Naval Base was moved across the Gulf to the oil-laden Bahrein Islands, territory of more tractable, independent H. H. Sheik Sir Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifa, leaving His Britannic Majesty's diplomatic agent for the Persian Gulf uncomfortably high & dry in.' Bushire's British Residency (see map, p. IQ). Meanwhile protection-loving Imperial Airways revised its flying route to India, establishing its regular...
...nearly three times the annual revenue of Iran, is an 865-mile railroad line. No foreign country is to own any part of this line, no foreign loans are to be accepted. Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses mountain passes as high as 7,200 feet, bores into numerous tunnels, connects with no foreign...
...typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came from rats. And that explained the mode of transmission of a mild type of typhus fever (Brill's disease) which exists endemically on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from New York to Louisiana (TIME...