Word: hinterlander
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...Union blockade cut off cotton from the South, to brand-new petrochemical plants. The city's 4,500,000 people are crowded into a narrow, palm-dotted peninsula that has a greater population density than London or New York, and hundreds more swarm in each month from the hinterland, hoping for a taste of Bombay's better life...
...However, most South Vietnamese peasants are still either passive or actively resentful of the Diem regime, which is often personified by oppressive, corrupt local administrators. For all his high hopes for the program, aloof, autocratic President Diem seldom stirs far from his yellow palace in Saigon to visit the hinterland and generate enthusiasm for his cause. Sneaky Petes. The area of the government's greatest frustration is the Mekong River Delta, where 55% of South Viet Nam's population is centered and 75% of its rice is grown. The peasants there have resisted the hamlet program-and have...
...Soviet boondocks comes a rising tide of complaints about the kind of people the Moscow authorities send out to the hinterland. Too often, they are troublemakers who are supposed to be reformed through hard work. Instead, they just make more trouble. In Vladivostok exiled young toughs formed a bandit gang that terrorized the city and knifed to death a young Communist leader;deportees to a Ukrainian collective farm last year drank so much booze that they were barred from the liquor stores, turned in desperation to eau de cologne...
...Indies. "Here in Britain," says a Barclays executive, "we're a rather starchy lot. But out there we have a big, brash, happy sort of market." Barclays has learned to be as brash as the market. Departing from the hackneyed British custom of sending local advertisements to the hinterland, it has gone after African depositors with movie cartoons and commercials set to high-life music. Sample: "One of them farmers 'e go for Barclays Bank/And they keep him money well." The cartoons are leading attractions at theaters, have tripled savings accounts...
Brownsville, Texas (pop. 48,040) is a hot, sleepy Mexican border city with almost no hinterland. As near to Panama ity as to New York, it is visited each day by but one train, two planes, and practically no tourists. But thanks to a 17-mile ship channel to the Gulf of Mexico and the imagination of a profane, one-time U-boat commander named Friederich Wilhelm ("Fritz") Hofmokel, Brownsville today is a flourishing seaport that last year handled 4,685,000 tons of cargo. More than half that tonnage consisted of low-grade Mexican oil imported under a unique...