Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
...immensely enjoyed taking over bits & pieces of broken-down railroads in the Deep South, linking them together, and making them work for a profit. The end product of this patient toil is the prosper ous 1,970-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Rail-foad Co., that links Mobile and New Orleans with East St. Louis...
...convert three cargo ships into passenger-cargo liners at $4 million each for postwar service to Scandinavia under the Moore & McCormick houseflag; 2) to build three de luxe passenger liners (cost $5 million each) for the Mississippi Shipping Company Inc.'s Delta Line, to sail from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing touches on designs for a new diesel-electric locomotive. Ingalls hopes...
...Fought 72 great and little battles, among them the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle for Leyte Gulf...
...number of TIME-editions printed especially for our servicemen across the oceans - for TIME was the first magazine to invent a "Pony" Edition for fast overseas delivery, and the first magazine to print a special edition for our troops in Australia, first in Hawaii, first on the Persian Gulf, in the Middle East, in India, in the Philippines...