Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terror of the Boise Basin's greatest natural disaster was added a new. worse terror: pyromaniacs. Behind a fire-fighting crew Leaped a fresh, incendiary blaze, nearly trapping the crew. Other fires broke out. Governor C. Ben Ross proclaimed a state of insurrection, despatched national guardsmen to the region. Forty-five "undesirables" were ejected. Next day three counties were under martial law, all civil functions at a standstill while 6,000 men fought the flames, prayed for rain to help them do what they could not do alone...
...Eight, where we recalled Hartmann and Dr. Wien, for the whole party to descend and search for our poor friends. Six in all passed the night on an ice ledge a metre wide on the range of the couloir. Next day almost the entire expedition gathered in the highest basin of the Zemu Glacier...
...Yangtze basin is the most prosperous and economically the most important part of China. It is a matter of preeminent national necessity that our efforts be designed not merely to save the unfortunate inhabitants but also to restore the productivity of the region...
...Behind a high tariff ($1.30 per bu.) German farmers have this year produced an unusually large wheat crop (160,000,000 bu.). Germany needs to import only about 30,000,000 bu. to bring its supply up to domestic consumption. Most of its imported wheat comes from the Danube basin, Manitoba and Argentina. It was not likely that Germany could or would take any appreciable amount of wheat from the Farm Board. But of U. S. cotton on credit Germany could make great use; its textile industry was deeply depressed and in need of just such a stimulant. During...
Recognizing that the failure of the Donetz basin coal mines to live up to scheduled production was one of the chief weaknesses of the Five-Year Plan, a decree was issued last week putting into effect the Stalin suggestions and the similar recommendations of U. S. Mining En gineer Charles E. Stuart. Half the mines in the region must be mechanized by the end of the year. Workers are to be paid according to their skill with bonuses for good work. Direction of the mines is to be taken from workers' committees and given to individually responsible managers...