Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of the style has a double range: Geographically, the exhibits represent nearly every corner of the globe including the principal countries of Europe parts of Asia, and the United States from New York to California: Architecturally, the exhibits range from apartment houses to factories, low cost housing developments to luxurious mansions, schools, skyscrapers, theatres, laboratories, department stores, and churches...
...elms disappearing on account of the blight strengthened Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill's argument for a botanical exploration of Northern Japan, China, Korea and Manchukuo. Dr. Merrill, who is director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, called attention to the fact that native trees of eastern Asia and eastern North America are closely related.*Reason: geological and climatic changes affected both regions at about the same time throughout the ages. The elm is one of the trees whose Asiatic cousins may be resistant to blight and warrant transplanting...
...Another point: the only large areas where trees develop autumnal colors are northeastern U. S., northeastern Asia, northwestern Europe...
...Geologists are now certain that Asia does not possess sufficient raw materials (iron & coal) to make possible a Western type of industrialization. Textiles and light industries will grow-but great steel plants can never grow up in Asia as in the U. S. ¶Population of Japan is now over 60,000,000, will be 90,000,000 in 30 years and then will probably stabilize. What to do? Birth control is not encouraged by the Government but neither is it discouraged. Contraceptives are widely advertised. But Japan bases her policy on the proposition that the world must make room...
...Great Britain and Japan are currently in a deadly struggle for the textile markets of Asia and Europe, with India as the immediate battleground. Wages in Japan are about one-quarter of wages in Lancashire. Currently a conference is being held at Simla, but, over the long pull, there seems little hope for Lancashire...