Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typhus has persisted in cities along the U. S. Atlantic and Gulf coast despite sanitary precautions. It has at times erupted in communities without a lousy inhabitant. Perhaps some other bug transmits the disease, thought Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the Public Health Service. With associates he began the study of typhus ab initio...
...became a little bigger by a strategic purchase. It acquired, for an undisclosed price, G. B. R. Smith Milling Co. of Sherman, Tex., which has a 2,000-bbl. daily flour production and a million bushels storage capacity for wheat. Its location assures Commander-Larabee of a supply of Gulf grain and cheap water transportation to the Atlantic Seaboard. With the addition. Commander-Larabee has 14 flour mills with a 40,000-bbl. capacity and storage space for 30,000,000 bu. Commander-Larabee plans to double the Sherman mill's storage capacity and is building...
Died. William Kerr Kavanaugh, 72, St. Louis coal and shipping tycoon, baseball enthusiast, leader in the Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway project; of pneumonia; in St. Louis...
Only the week prior President Trippe had struck another railroad legend from his map of the world's biggest air transport system. Planes had begun to drone in regular service from Vera Cruz, low on the Gulf of Mexico, up to Mexico City, following the old route of Conquistador Cortes, of General Winneld Scott and his U. S. Army...
...hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala on the Mexican coast. Here the weary men, learning that all of the ships but one have been destroyed to prevent their deserting, grow mutinous. Cortes, bidding them to go back if they will, quiets them...