Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf Coast...
...Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This is the season of the 24-hour Arctic day. They reached Alaska without mishap, went on. The Winnie Mae stood in good chance of completing her course (via Edmonton and Cleveland) to Roosevelt Field on the tenth...
After his conviction for violating Tennessee's "monkey law" and his $100 fine, young Scopes went to the University of Chicago on funds raised for him by sympathetic scientists. He specialized in biology and geology. He joined the Venezuela Gulf Oil Co., went deep into remote South American Oil fields, married a fellow employee last year. After a serious tropical illness he returned to Chicago to study for a Ph.D. William Jennings Bryan sleeps on a Virginia hillside overlooking the Potomac while Dayton has long since relapsed to sultry stagnation...
...rattlesnake steaks were served on toast, garnished with lettuce. The flesh resembled salmon. Reported the "Gulf Gleam" column of the Tampa Tribune: "We thought our comrades must have been bitten by a bottle of Tampa liquor and were taking the rattlesnake as antidote...
...McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward 2,318 D 1,783 D National Biscuit 4,665 4,840 National Cash Register 912 373 D Otis Steel 634 20 Packard Motor Car 2,654 113 du Pont 17,347 12,656 Studebaker 1,343 809 Texas Gulf Sulphur 3,803 2,448 Westinghouse Electric 4,546 2,885D White Rock 257 2,885D