Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedum venture. His recently formed Melben Oil Co., which had spent $1,000,000 exploring for oil along Texas' coast, leased 120,480 acres of tideland area from Texas for $1,383,467. From a specially equipped $500,000 float, Mike Benedum will soon start drilling under the Gulf of Mexico...
...Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. . . . It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century ago. . . . St. Louis of France protected it. . . . It was unthinkable that it should break...
There is a deep gulf between communistic theory and practice: the envisioned ideal state of happiness becomes in actuality a totalitarian government ruling in the most autocratic manner. It may be that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...
...last week there was unwonted activity among the rolling hills of Grindstone Island, one of the "Misty Magdalens" which lie athwart the Gulf of St. Lawrence steamer lanes. In one spot the scrubby balsam firs had been cleared and a power shovel scooped deep into the earth. At week's end, under a crisp, blue sky, a couple of dozen Madelinot workmen stood around with mining engineers and newsmen to watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With...
...Newfangled Industry. Known for four centuries and settled for two, the Magdalens (pop. 10,000) have never before had modern industry. They have long been notorious as a menace to navigation-"the Graveyard of the Gulf." Of the most westerly, Deadman Island (see map), Tom Moore wrote...