Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consideration of the proposed Atlantic-Gulf ship canal across Florida was dropped by the Public Works Administration today on the grounds it was outside the normal self-liquidating requirements...
Between Poet Robinson and Poets Spender and Auden lies the gulf of the War. Much murmured of late by the literati, these two new names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
Last week Dartmouth got the controversy it desired. The newsy Art Digest carried as its leading article an acidulous diatribe against Dartmouth and its murals by Harvey Maitland Watts, a director of Philadelphia's Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry. Prouder of his "The Gulf Stream Myth and Its Relation to the Mild Climate of Europe" is Critic Watts than of any other item in his career as a lecturer and author. Wrote he in the Art Digest...
...warehouses carefully fenced off from the rest of the tariff-bound U. S. There vessels will unload their goods and store them for reshipment without any customs formalities. Four such free zones may be established, one at New York, another elsewhere on the Atlantic coast, one at a Gulf port, one at a Pacific port...
...Amalgamated Copper. Early in his career he was almost wiped out on the short side of American Sugar. In 1904 he got a commission of $1,000.000 for buying the Selby and Tacoma smelters for the Guggenheims. He added to his fortune by buying into the immensely successful Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. in 1909 shortly after it was founded. He made nearly half a million by selling U. S. Steel short during the "peace scare" in the late months of 1916. All these events might have been part of the career of any famed speculator but Baruch was more than...