Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal, which Aluminum Co. called a barter "in effect but not literally," will be sold to Montreal's La Salle Petroleum Refinery, Ltd. (incorporated only last May), refined and placed on the Canadian market. Canada's oilmen spoke of "disturbing effects," pointed out that Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. was a member of the international oil conference which sought to limit Russian exports. Although they muttered about an "embargo," Ottawa was of the opinion that nothing could legally be done. Newshawks discovered the Russian tanker Aase Maersk lying in Montreal harbor loaded with 9,000 tons of rich...
...Loon's breezy mnemonic method of imparting knowledge he explains earthquakes by a pile of books, what is happening to the earth's surface by half-a-dozen clean handkerchiefs, the central Spanish plateau with a soup plate, two saucers and a spoon. The inner workings of the Gulf Stream, the puzzle of which is latitude and which is longitude, are other mysteries brightly revealed...
Easily the Sikorsky flew to St. John. N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh. Pilot Hutchinson was emphatic in stating he would take as long as necessary to insure safety. Nevertheless the Detroit Free Press fiercely flayed the "inhumanity" of Mr. & Mrs. Hutchinson in "compelling their two children to share their perils...
...Gulf hurricane was wrecked the yacht Wild Duck, floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire...
...whose father was the late Charles Henry Roberts, president of the Carolina Central Railroad and whose brother is Owen F. Roberts, former independent member of the New York Stock Exchange. The bone of her contention was that in 1921 Hayden. Stone & Co. had "induced" her to buy 150 Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies shares although the house was running a pool in the stock at the time to keep it up while the partners, including Richard Hoyt, unloaded their own holdings. She said that she brought a suit over the transaction, won $16,000. What especially angered her was that...