Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant her more time for development...
...Russia made a drastic cut in her imports from Persia, which were then about 60,000,000 rubles annually, while Soviet exports amounted to only 20,000,000 rubles. Persia then boycotted Russian goods, threatened to build a railway from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, in order to "make them independent of the Russian market." Both sides suffered in the economic conflict and AH Ghuli Khan, one-time Ambassador at Moscow, was sent early in the year to negotiate the above treaty...
Four months ago, in April, the ram-swollen Mississippi River began to leap from its bed. Result: "the greatest national calamity since the Civil War"-a crawling sheet of water that left few dry spots between southern Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico. Last week the American Red Cross announced that all was not yet dry in the Mississippi Valley. Some 170,000 acres are still under water; 130,000 in Louisiana, 21,000 in Mississippi, 10,000 in Arkansas, 8,500 in Illinois. The Red Cross is at present providing food, clothing and shelter for 130,000 destitute flood...
...Frequently, when an oil well seems exhausted, oil men enliven it by exploding a charge of nitroglycerin in its depths. tA subsidiary of the Mellon family's Gulf Oil Co. William Larimer Mellon is president of Gulf Oil, chairman of Gypsy...
...might call extraordinary exertion. Long, closely-written technical papers were read on city planning, surveys, irrigation, highways, topography, etc. Among the notables present were Engineers Morris Knowles of Pittsburgh (city planner), President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (flood control specialist), President George S. Davison of "that good" Gulf Refining Co., Pittsburgh; Willard T. Chevalier, manager of the Engineering News-Record (the profession's "Bible"). For President Stevens, aged 74, the trip to Denver had personal aspects. He was paying a visit to his brother E. C. Stevens, headmaster of a Denver school. Also he was revisiting the scene...