Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges only as a resplendent traveler to the court of Solomon. In varying...
Strictly a field science is oceanography. For investigations of great ocean rivers like the Labrador & Humboldt Currents and the Gulf Stream, of wind-driven surface currents, of the habits and distribution of marine life and of many another aspect of the sea's vast and various lore, oceanographers must record temperatures not only at the surface but at considerable depths. Nearly a century ago a Frenchman named Aimé used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth...
...aviator who claimed to have seen the capital city of the Queen of Sheba in a flight over a section of waste land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been...
...financial wing he is a director of Union Trust Co., which far outshines the family bank in national prestige. He also is president of Mellbank Corp., which controls a group of some 20 smaller Pennsylvania banks. In the industrial wing he is a director of Aluminum Co., Gulf Oil, Koppers Co. and Carborundum Co. He has a director's vote in such minority Mellon interests as Pullman, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Westinghouse Air Brake, Harbison-Walker Refractories, Norfolk & Western. Last week he was seeking I. C. C. approval (which will probably be denied) of his recent election to the board...
...Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations south to Houston, a growing railway and shipping town connected with the Gulf by shallow Buffalo Bayou...