Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-coal basin there was bold talk of anthracite-union secession from the bituminous-worker-controlled United Mine Workers...
...people of the U.S. shivered and wondered. Some of them were indeed using the word traitor on the likes of Oscar Servaczgo. In all the Eastern Seaboard there was not enough fuel to keep homes warm, fire factory furnaces, prosecute the war. In East-Central Pennsylvania's anthracite basin extending from Carbondale to Pottsville there was good hard coal aplenty-underground-but some 17,000 striking miners refused to dig it. Other thousands threatened to walk out. The press roared its disapproval or belatedly questioned...
...they planted pepper, clearing large areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first roundups of alien enemies, thousands were taken to internment camps, but many more remained at large...
...started originally on the Basin Street Chamber Music show and wowed audiences so thoroughly that the powers that be gave her a program of her own. Not only is this a laudable move on the part of the Blue Network, but it is fortunate for the public, as the Basin Street show completely obscures her talents. Betty's program is on WHDH Saturday evenings at 10:30, though it may not be if the Vice-President in charge of The Public Be Damned Division goes to work again...
...strongly fortified city can be held as a strong point against attack by mechanized forces. Stalin chose to make Stalingrad another such point. While Germans and Russians were booting each other to death in the bomb-pocked streets, Stalin was organizing the winter offensive which burst into the Don basin with the fury of the snowstorms that accompanied...