Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacuous is vast Canada that the 90,000 assorted farmers, fox-breeders, lobster folk, oystermen and smugglers who have ample room on the 2,184 square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
...equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties into the Gulf of Chihli some 250 miles north. Last week "China's Sorrow" was rising in such terrifying volume that China's greatest flood experts said that they could not predict whether it would switch back to its course of 1854 or perhaps take an entirely unprecedented direction surging into...
Japanese workers benefited by the occupation of Manchukuo?" "The only ones who have benefited," said Mr. Kato, "are those in the munitions factories. For others conditions have been very bad. Generally speaking, since the Manchurian invasion, the gulf between prices and wages in Japan has been considerably increased, and as a result the workers have suffered...
Practical. 1) Italy's two East African colonies, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, are unconnected except by the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. As early as 1906, France and Britain gave her permission to build a railroad through Abyssinia to connect the two. Only a military expedition will make it possible...
...financial axiom of long standing is that short-term debt, especially bank loans, should be refunded with long-term bonds. Lately many an oil company has taken advantage of low interest rates on bank borrowings to reverse the rule and retire long-term bonds with bank loans. Last year Gulf Oil Co. did just that and last week stockholders of Harry F. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. approved a plan for borrowing $40,000,000 toward retiring the company's entire bonded indebtedness...