Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, some 800 miles farther along its west-northwesterly track, the hurricane lost much of its starch lashing the hardwood forests of Yucatan. But as it entered the Gulf of Mexico, the air was humid and hot-just right to regenerate the black storm...
...thus defined when she joined the union in 1845). And another provision grants all seaboard states 37½% of anything the Federal Government manages to dig up beyond the marginal seas-clear to the edge of the broad continental shelf (which stretches out about 100 miles along the Gulf of Mexico...
...trembling lips belong to Catherine Villars, quadroon concubine of Pirate Jean Lafitte. It takes a brave man to meet her advances-in Lafitte's own Gulf of Mexico island hangout, but no one can accuse Louisiana's Jim Bowie of lacking nerve. Besides, Lafitte is dead drunk at the mo-mert. As for Catherine, who can blame her? Bowie is a bluff, broad-shouldered god, at once bold and gracious, a fighting terror whose terrible knife is to become a frontier legend, yet so gentle that a woman's touch makes him tremble...
Died. Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, 68, founder of the Ingalls Iron Works Co.; of a heart attack; in Birmingham, Ala. During the late '30s he set up the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.(largest on the Gulf Coast), pioneered in the construction of all-welded ships. In 1948, angered by his only son's divorce and plans for remarriage, Ingalls hired armed guards to carry $2,120,000 in $1,000 bills to buy back his son's share of the shipbuilding business...
...Gulf Stream is a recent development-a mere 60 million years...