Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inoperative I will cite how about 60 voters here at Deer Harbor lost their chance to vote this last election. They had a chartered boat laying here at Deer Harbor ready to take them to a voting place at Elfin Cove on Icy Strait, but on election day the Gulf of Alaska was in an angry mood-it may have been a grudge against the New Deal-and no boat could cross...
...shipping point for most of United Fruit's Guatemalan bananas, is Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean. In 1927 a United Fruit subsidiary got a concession from the government allowing it to build new ports on the Caribbean and the Pacific. For International Railways a new port on the Gulf of Amatique, competing with Puerto Barrios, would be a serious matter, for in the past few years United Fruit has shipped more and more bananas overland from the Pacific Coast to Puerto Barrios on the International. Thus, bananas reach U. S. distributing centres more quickly. On this increased volume...
...hiring halls, the winning of whose management was the dockworkers' 1934 victory. If men would not work on those terms, the shipowners declared, they would shut down all operations.' Snarling that this would be "a lock-out," Leader Bridges declared: "Every port on the Pacific, the Gulf, and the Atlantic will be tied...
...another general strike rather than give in an inch to the shipowners. As the referendum started on the Pacific Coast, Longshoreman Bridges set about involving the rest of the U. S. by getting I. L. A.'s National President Joseph P. Ryan to call a conference of Pacific, Gulf, Great Lakes and Atlantic longshoremen to consider united action on all coasts...
...begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair...