Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When finished, the Trans-Iranian will jog south 865 miles through the middle of the country it serves, joining the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. U. S. and German firms began the line in 1927 on the route suggested by the League report. As often happens in business negotiations between representatives of civilized and more primitive peoples, the U. S. and Germans found themselves out in the cold in 1933. Danes and Swedes took over the partly completed job, parceled it out to subcontractors, some of whom were British. Forty-five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled...
...briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide a new Standard Oil tanker. Name: William H. Berg...
...making it easier for prospective homebuilders to finance their houses (TIME, Dec. 6). In the second, he asked Congress for a $112,000,000 reduction in Federal appropriations for road building, as a step toward a balanced budget in 1939. While the President and his party cruised about the Gulf Stream last week, daily messages from a temporary White House in the Miami-Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables, Fla. kept him informed about the repercussions of his messages in Washington...
Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...
...struggle to the sea, another inland city, Houston, was also dredging itself an ocean port. Directing this development was a young Chicagoan, Benjamin Casey ("Benjy") Allin, who until the War's end was a captain of engineers. At Houston, Engineer Allin found 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico a ghost port over whose wharves but a few hundred thousand tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port...