Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover cabinet recently asked a representative of Siam, "How far is it from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
Escorted by an appropriate retinue- which included, of course, his close friend George MacDonald, papal marquis and prime lay promoter of affairs Roman Catholic in the U. S.-His happy Eminence had passed three weeks on the Gulf Coast to recuperate from influenza. Passing out of Baptist Mississippi into Roman Catholic Louisiana, he had made a bit of news at New Orleans by commenting on the Business Depression as follows: "The American People are experiencing a return to religion following a period of carelessness and cynicism marked by the prosperity of the land. . . . Now they are returning when they find...
Colombian Petroleum is controlled by Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania (Mellon-controlled), buyer of a 75% interest for $2,500,000 in 1926. The remaining 25% is held by Carib Syndicate, Ltd., among whose directors are Charles Hayden of Hayden. Stone & Co., Ernest Stauffen Jr. of Marine Midland Corp. The Barco Concession is in the Department of North Santander, 200 miles from the Caribbean...
...close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, good friend of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose family controls Gulf Refining Co., which in turn, according to Senator Thomas, fears tariffs, embargoes, investigations. If Senator Reed would not let the oil resolution pass, vengeful Senator Thomas would block everything else...
Franklin D. Mooney, president of Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines, became a director of U. S. Lines on the request of the Shipping Board (see above...