Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...
...will tell you what conditions really are," said he to Herr Wolff. "There is an island in the Gulf of Naples where two or three hundred people are living, having been sentenced there for their political activities. They are not all opponents of the Fascist regime. Some of them are Fascists, and when I find them guilty of any offense I am more severe toward them than I am toward others. The political exiles live apart from the ordinary criminals. Each of them receives ten lire a day and when it is necessary their families also are supported. Each...
...Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. (world's third largest producers of crude) last week went Paragon Refining Co., refiners and operators of more than 400 filling stations in Michigan and Ohio. In March Paragon announced that it had outlets in excess of production...
...head of the list is Walter Hull Aldridge, president of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. At the bottom is American Radiator's Clarence Mott Woolley. In between are only some 85 other names but all are potent in U. S. business. They bring potency to the National Foreign Trade Council whose membership they form. For the most part the Council works silently but effectively on the problems of trade and its encouragement, but once a year it holds an open Convention, invites all who would like to hear problems discussed, experiences narrated. Last week the 17th annual Foreign Trade Council...
...British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...