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...henchman named General Djalma Polly Coelho, see more than mere constitutionality in the scheme. They want Brazilians to expand into the huge areas back of the present narrow strip of coastal settlement. They hope that moving the seat of government beyond present railheads, smack into the healthful, mosquito-free heartland, might start Brazilians colonizing all the way from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to São Paulo state in the south...
...young wing of the Canadian Army, which favors standardization with the U.S., argues ominously that Britain should be secondary in Canada's planning, as the next war's aggressors will surely strike directly at the North American heartland. Thus, if another war comes, Canada and the U.S. will be forced to fight together from the start...
...moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood, inviting Germans to stand on Western democracy's side...
...While Chicago's press whooped with an enthusiasm mislaid since the Capone era, brother George Jones flew in from Mexico to round up a reported $250,000 in ransom money. Automatically, city officials began another cleanup of unprotected policy peddlers. From the North Shore to Bronzeville, the Negro heartland, the kidnaping was poolroom talk...
Where was the food for the" hungry world (see above) coming from? Most of it would come from the U.S. heartland, the valley of the 2,000-mile-long Mississippi River and its tremendous tributaries, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, the Red River of the North, the Red River of the South...