Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second school of thought abruptly dismisses the idea that the Emperor can ever be used to further democracy in Japan. Even a divine Rescript cannot bridge the gulf that separates western political liberalism from Shinto totalitarianism...
While on duty aboard [ship] in Leyte Gulf a short time prior to the Lingayen invasion, we had many native dugout canoes around our ship, their occupants, of course, being mainly interested in food and clothing. In one such canoe was what appeared to be an entire family, the mother of which was sitting in the stern, paying no attention to the bartering going on, but rather being apparently deeply engrossed in a copy of TIME. I tried to attract her attention with no luck as she was apparently thoroughly enjoying what she was reading...
...take Burma's capital Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten had mounted his biggest combined operation of the Pacific war. To the north of the city Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim's land forces awaited the go signal. British East Indies Fleet units, standing in to the Gulf of Martaban, shelled the flatlands south of Rangoon. Paratroops floated down south of Rangoon to smooth the way for amphibious forces. Far to the southwest, in the Bay of Bengal, aircraft carriers and battleships carried out strikes on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to prevent interference with the big show...
...mile rail road, the Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad, they elected Tigrett treasurer, a position which incidentally included the job of raising the money to keep the rail road running. In 1911, he became president of the B. & N.W., soon was elected a director of a neighboring railroad, the struggling Gulf, Mobile & Northern Rail road Co. Eight years later, largely because nobody else was interested in managing the G.M. & N., Tigrett was elected its president...
That took him into East St. Louis. It also gave him an integrated system that be came the current Gulf, Mobile & Ohio...