Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltic Fleet would soon be free to operate in the Gulf of Finland, could well land troops on the Finnish coast...
...mile international section of the river between El Paso and Brownsville is sometimes only a chain of puddles, sometimes a roaring flood which pours precious water into the Gulf. If this excess water could be used for irrigation throughout the year, it would add perhaps a million acres of rich agricultural land to both the U.S. and Mexico, bring to reality a project long discussed by both...
...mystery-story realm at last, he told the world that the U.S. Government, on military advice and with the full approval of the oil companies involved, plans to build a huge, 1,000-mile pipeline (estimated cost: $130,000,000-$165,000,000) from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
...Beautiful Blaze." In the Gulf of Genoa, I had marvelous orders. I was told to go out and make as much nuisance as I could. It had become quite a sport to shoot up trains; I had never tried it before. Somewhat southwest of Savona, we spent a whole day watching the railroad. Just after dark we got about 400 yards offshore. A train popped out of the tunnel and we fired. The first shell exploded just inside the cab where the driver was. Several of our shells hit the posts which carry the electric line...
...morning of the Battle of Kula Gulf, Navy officers, aware that the gulf was full of dangerous coral reefs, ordered a quick chart. Such a job would ordinarily take at least three days. Army planes from Guadalcanal swarmed over the gulf, hastily shot 1,500 pictures covering nearly 500 sq.mi. In eight and a half hours the pictures were taken, developed, and assembled in a mosaic showing all the reefs. In the battle that night no U.S. ship ran aground...