Word: gulf
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Greece. The city of Corinth, 1½ miles from the Gulf of Corinth, was a flourishing trade centre as early as the 6th Century B. C. It suffered spoliation at the hands of the Romans, recovered prosperity when Julius Caesar re-peopled it with Italian freedmen. Since 1896 the American School of Classical Studies has been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied...
...vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...Some roads still operate a few of their own sleepers locally. Gulf, Mobile & Northern owns five; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, 25, all painted orange-yellow. Canadian National and Canadian Pacific own all their sleepers and parlor cars...
Died. James Ross Mellon, 88, retired Pittsburgh financier and charitarian, elder brother of Andrew William Mellon, father of Board Chairman William Larimer Mellon of Gulf Oil Corp.; of old age; in Pittsburgh...
...companies ("major" to the trade) had to pay the posted price of $1 for what legal crude they bought in the open market. As backers of the gasoline pool, the "majors" grew weary of holding the bag for every "hot" refiner from Kilgore to the Gulf of Mexico. As soon as the "majors" ceased to support the gasoline market, they turned around and declared war on the hot refiners. From the Southwest, where some independents swore they would give it away if buyers would pay the taxes, the price-cutting spread to the great Midwest area. There the majors...