Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscience. In Mobile, Ala., the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad received a money order for $3 from a Michigan man who "wanted to pay for some rocks which I took from your right-of-way 35 years ago for my slingshot...
...most probable "developments": the pipeline may be resurrected as a project of U.S. oil companies with concessions in oil-rich Arabia. The U.S. would lend them an estimated $130-165 million to build the line from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, probably to Haifa in Palestine...
...Instead of waging constant war against an enemy without, the newspapers would do well to take steps against the enemy within. They would do well, too, to take warning from the widening gulf that separates the conception of freedom held by themselves and that held by the people...
...days earlier batteries of 8-inch guns, massed thickly on the narrow Karelian corridor into Finland, had opened fire. From the Gulf of Finland came the roar of supporting guns of the Red Baltic Fleet. The Red air force plowed the enemy defenses. At the end of three hours, Soviet infantry and tanks plunged forward into the gaps...
...second nightfall, the breach was 25 miles wide and 15 to 25 miles deep. The gulf fortress of Viipuri now lay only 40 miles away...