Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yacht was to be as thoroughgoing a vacation as any modern U. S. President has dared to take with Congress in session. Not one political adviser accompanied him. For company he had his fishing cronies, practically the same group who went with him on the same vessel into the Gulf Stream a month before his inaugural last year. Nearest among them to a politician was Manhattan's Frederic Kernochan whom Mayor Walker continued in office as Special Sessions Justice. He has always frequented polite society as few Tammanyites are privileged to do. When in 1932 he sent a check...
Vincent Astor. present in a professional as well as a social capacity, and Captain Herman Gray, famed master of Gulf Stream fishing, who used to pilot President Hoover to good fishing grounds and who remarked : "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber...
...glad and proud when Franklin Roosevelt comes aboard. It was so last September when for a few brief days the President found time to cruise from Hyde Park to Washington. It was so the February before when the Nourmahal carried Franklin Roosevelt through the fish-filled waters of the Gulf Stream to give him rest before taking up his duties in Washington. After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond...
Deep in the earth's crust along the Gulf of Mexico are huge knobs of pure salt. In the tortured strata around these salt domes are often found fabulous pools of petroleum and the world's richest sulphur deposits. Water heated under pressure to 330° is forced into sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production...
Paul Mellon, 26, only son of Andrew William Mellon, was elected a director of Gulf Oil Corp., succeeding his uncle, the late Richard Beatty Mellon...