Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a cavalcade of 700 fishermen and 100 horses clattered out of Helsingfors to drag the ice of the Gulf of Finland. For two days the expedition prospered, moved farther and farther out from the shore. Suddenly a shrieking, steel-grey blizzard swept down on them. With prodigious snapping and grinding a great ice floe broke away from the shore. All the fishermen and their steeds were swept out to sea on an island...
...with alarm but with interest. Politically ambitious Texans tread lightly on the subject until after the vote is counted. For, Mr. Mellon is, in part, responsible for the payment of more wages, more taxes and more commissions in Texas than any other three men in Congress. [Reference to Gulf Oil Corp.-ED.] Speak not for all of Texas, ambitious Captain, else choose less debatable topics of pride! Be not too maligning, dejected Captain, else a Gulf of Friends appear between you and your goal, or perhaps a grateful Gypsy...
...world cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign...
...Muscat, important British port at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, His Highness Seyyid Sir Taimur ben Feisal celebrated the end of Ramadan by wiping his brow, praising Allah, announcing his decision to abdicate. The Sultan of Muscat differs from most rulers in his feelings for the land of his birth. He hates the place. Muscat is the world's hottest city, with an average annual rainfall of only 3½ inches, frequent temperatures of 189 degrees in the sun. The Sultan spends most of his time in India, which he finds like Bar Harbor by comparison...
...effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost 2,000,000 acres of rich producing lands in the mid-continent fields but has only a small retailing subsidiary. Prairie Pipe has about 13,000 mi. of trunk and gathering lines that honeycomb the country from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, but its business is to carry oil, not sell it. Thus, on Sinclair's retail outlets depends Consolidated success and, as a great oil salesman, that is the new president's problem...