Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...descent will be made, if all goes well, in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, some time in September. First, Professor Piccard intends to drop the unmanned bathyscaphe into the sea with a pressure-controlled instrument on board to bring it up again when it has reached a certain depth. If it rises as he expects it to do, the professor himself will take the plunge...
...Tide had appeared off the west coast of Florida last January (TIME, Feb. 10). Fishermen first noticed long, wavering streaks of reddish-amber smudging the blue Gulf waters. Floating in the streaks, bellies up, were thousands of dead fish...
...many as 60 million of them in a quart of "red" water. The fish were killed either by a poison secreted by these organisms or as a result of their death and decay, he thought. Their sudden appearance might be explained by an increase in the phosphate content of Gulf water from phosphate plants near Tampa...
Property-owners manned shovels and wheelbarrows, held their noses and tried to bury the fish. Beaches were drenched with DDT. At week's end, the Red Tide still mottled the Gulf. The only hope for suffering Floridians was that a storm would break up the amber plague or carry it somewhere else...
...National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...