Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicaragua's Somoza feared that those guns were now to be turned on him. From his hilltop command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...
...Galveston dock. In the dust-thick hold, longshoremen flattened the light brown piles. Loaded with 328,000 bushels of No. 1 hard winter wheat, the ship moved over to a nearby dock. Oil barges filled her bunkers with fuel oil. That evening she sidled into the Gulf, headed for Bordeaux...
...tides of the upper air were calm as darkness fell. One balmy air mass pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico, flowed over New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. Cold air edged eastward from the Pacific. When the air masses came together, like rock strata along an earthquake fault, a storm was born...
...their place, as a working partner, he installed a fellow Bostonian, his wife Natalie, a pretty woman with flaming red hair (which was fine for color experiments). Kalmus borrowed $300,000 and made his first motion picture, The Gulf Between, in two colors (red and green). Kalmus thought it much better than another color process, British-developed Kinemacolor, then in use. "It was nothing," said Dr. Kalmus of his old competitor, "for a horse to have two tails,. one red and one green...
Officials of Atlantic and Gulf ports have been calling the Seaway all sorts of names ever since it first came up. They paint tragic pictures of ocean commerce steaming to Chicago and Duluth, leaving New York, Boston, and New Orleans little more than ghost towns. On the other hand, big shipping firms stated flatly that they wouldn't use the Seaway; Senator Morse retorted that they would when they found it profitable. Senator Aiken of Vermont roundly scored the shippers, saying that "since 1936 they have had their hands in the Federal Treasury, clear up to the armpits...