Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. John Thomas Scopes, 29, Venezuela Gulf Oil Co. geologist, famed culprit in the Dayton, Tenn., evolution trial (TIME, May 18, 1925 et seq.); and Mildred Walker, fellow employe; at Maracaibo, Venezuela...
...good U. S. President can get far away from his White House duties. After six days of mediocre fishing in the Gulf Stream off Long Key, Fla., President Hoover cut short his winter vacation and journeyed back to Washington. No Sunday fisherman, he did not want to waste an idle day aboard the houseboat Saunterer. Likewise he was impatient to get his hands back upon the London Naval Conference, where developments were not altogether to his liking. French demands had boosted auxiliary tonnage figures to such levels that the President could have read such press headlines as: HOPE FOR NAVY...
...Texas Gulf Sulphur...
...carpet were called the Island Kingdom's foremost capitalists, the Directors of the Bank of Iceland. They did not come shivering, for the kindly Gulf Stream makes Reykjavik winters temperate. In fact "Iceland" is a complete misnomer for a land abounding in volcanoes and hot springs (many a farmer warms his house with hot water radiators piped directly from his spring). But though the Directors of the Bank of Iceland did not come shivering they came shamefaced...
...Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. (World's largest): $16,247,478 as against...