Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salvador. After Amapala, Honduras, the first stop (TIME, Dec. 3) came La Union, Salvador. The Gulf of Fonseca was ruffled by a smart blow and the U. S. S. Maryland's launches, in which the travellers crossed it, jounced and plunged. Like President Barahona of Honduras, President Pio Romero Bosque of Salvador found himself unable to receive the visitors, but sent his ministers of exchequer and foreign affairs. These dined the Hoovers at the home of James Gaylor, railroad man. The Maryland sailed that evening for Corinto, Nicaragua...
...During the Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night...
Soapy combers of the Gulf Stream lunge across the Atlantic carrying with them a clutter of spars, smashed planks, crates, broken chairs, two or three stove-in lifeboats with keels...
Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...
Wrapped in a shred of muslin and tucked in a soiled sash, the Pink Pearl is taken to Linga, across the Gulf. There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...