Word: flatlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says. He is keeping his program limited in the hope that, unlike earlier and more grandiose schemes for abolishing the favelas, it can be carried out. His three-part plan: 1) stop the growth of favelas by preventing construction of new shacks; 2) destroy the few flatland favelas, the foulest of all because the sewage in the open ditches does not run off; 3) "civilize" the hillside favelas by providing them with police protection, free medical services, schools, electricity, sewers and running water...
Many moons ago, when a tribe of Haida Indians was searching for a new camp site, a famed chief named Jumping Brook led the way to Kitimat, a coastal flatland in the rugged northwest portion of what is now British Columbia. Two aspects of the Kitimat site appealed to Chief Jumping Brook. It was near the sea (the Haidas built ocean-going canoes), and there was plenty of fresh water in the chain of lakes and rivers a short distance inland...
...famine of 1950 crept inexorably across China's traditional "hunger belt," some 200,000 square miles of fertile flatland that stretches from the Yangtze River to the Great Wall. Last summer, droughts had parched the flatlands; in the fall the Yellow River went on a record rampage to destroy still more farmlands. Farther south, a secondary hunger front was in the making in the normally rich Yangtze delta, hit last summer by the worst floods in 18 years. Rare in China's history have been years when famine struck in both the Yellow River and Yangtze valleys...