Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME [March 14] correct in placing Muscat on the Persian Gulf...
TIME'S National Affairs researchers were woolgathering. Muscat is on the Gulf of Oman...
Hottest city in the world is reputedly the Persian Gulf port of Muscat, capital of the arid little (82,000 sq. mi.) independent Sultanate of Oman, where the average rainfall is only 3½ in. a year. In September 1833, U. S. Special Agent Edmund Roberts visited Muscat to sign a treaty with His Majesty Seyed Syeed Bin, Sultan of Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed...
...addition to the Tennessee Valley development, the New Deal is engaged in completing a gigantic program to produce electric power (1 in the Gulf of Lower California, 2 at Bonneville Dam in Oregon, 3 at Memphis, Tennessee, 4 in North Florida, 5 at Passamaquoddy, Maine...
Three Waltzes (adapted by Clare Kummer & Rowland Leigh from a play by Paul Knepler and Armin Robinson; produced by Messrs. Shubert). Between old-fashioned operetta and newfangled musi-comedy is more than a gulf of years. Nevertheless light opera still goes on, for even in Manhattan many a theatregoer would still rather swoon to a waltz than tap his restless feet to the beat of a topical song. For such oldsters-by-preference, the Shuberts' second Christmas present, Three Waltzes, was as good as a plum pudding ablaze with Napoleon brandy...