Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Hemisphere south of 30° north latitude; 2) to any port in the Pacific or Indian Oceans, including the China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. The President is granted discretion to declare out of bounds all North Atlantic shipping routes (including that to Canada via the Gulf of St. Lawrence) and may extend the prohibited areas wherever War II extends...
...sick and aged were rapidly evacuated from Helsinki (see map) until this capital of 300,000 was half empty. Viipuri was also evacuated and blacked out nightly to match Helsinki, as though Soviet bombing raids were expected. A fleet of 21 Soviet planes was seen roaring over the Gulf of Finland, with Soviet warships cruising just outside Finnish territorial waters, and President Kallio promptly closed all Finnish ports in the Gulf. The entire Finnish merchant marine-Finland has the largest fleet of sailing ships of any nation-was ordered to take refuge away from the Gulf in ports opposite Sweden...
...Hugo Viktor Osterman, personally took the field on the Soviet frontier of Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...
...jack-tars of the Red Navy this week entered the harbor of Tallinn, Estonia's capital, on a hulking grey-snouted cruiser and ten smaller Soviet warships. To statesmen this was grim business, the physical establishment of the Red Navy on a base dominating Estonia and commanding the Gulf of Finland in accordance with the treaty which Dictator Stalin recently forced Estonia to sign (TIME, Oct. 16), but for the sailors it was a lark, an adventure into the strange world of Capitalism...
...cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure. Chief U. S. Weatherman Francis Wilton Reichelderfer was nothing daunted. Said he, U. S. meteorologists have developed such a weather-eye technique that lack of Canadian reports will not seriously affect U. S. forecasts. Most U. S. weather is brewed in the Gulf of Mexico, or somewhere on the vast North American hinterland south of Alaska, and most U. S. storms move from west to east...