Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three slept. Nobody looked sternward where the seas piled up. They felt better looking...
...these inducements needs no explanation. The second depends in part upon the ease with which the transition from inshore to offshore waters can be reached from Woods Hole, on the abruptness of that transition, and on proximity to the continental slope and abyss. At the same time, the Gulf of Maine, close at hand with its tributaries, offers a more promising field for intensive investigations into the interaction between the physical-chemical and the biologic aspects of Oceanography than any other sector of comparable extent along the coast of America. The thermal diversity, regional, bathymetric and seasonal, is also wide...
...called an "unairworthy crate rescued from the junkpile," devoid even of a turn-&- bank indicator, she flew solo last fortnight from Pittsburgh to Havana. Despite a 30-m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never reached Miami. Planes and boats combed the Gulf, found no trace. Then, after three days silence, she cabled her mother from Nassau, Bahama Islands, that a gale had forced her to land on Andros, largest of the Bahamas...
Died. Charles Henry Markham, 69, onetime vice president and general manager of Southern Pacific Railroad, onetime president of Gulf Refining Co. and Gulf Pipe Line Co., onetime president, since 1926 board chairman, of Illinois Central Railroad; of a paralytic stroke; in Altadena, Calif...
...Texas Gulf Sulphur...