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Word: emption (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into mountains and valleys, cut by many a swift river, densely populated, primarily a manufacturing area needing railroads to carry workers and their products, their necessities, New England is a hydro-electric El Dorado. Its latent wealth of White Gold was discovered comparatively late owing to a} pre-emption of the handier power sites by textile and other factories; b} New England conservatism - small men content to make and sell power in a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power and the Press | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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