Word: hinterlander
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...five days the debate raged. Governors and generals flew in from the hinterland to join in. On New Year's Eve, some 30 leaders gathered for an arm-waving, tear-shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...
...Saturday night and early Sunday, special trains and rumbling trucks disgorged comrades from the hinterland. By noon, Rome's streets were jammed with perspiring, singing men, women & children-most of them wearing red bandannas and clutching lunch hampers. Brazenly they occupied chairs and tables in sidewalk cafes, opened their lunches and nibbled leisurely, tossing melon rinds and bread crusts into the streets. Outraged cafe owners cursed the invaders. The comrades only laughed: "This is the people...
Once it was just an island between two rivers, with a bedrock which defied digging. But it had a magnificent, deep-water harbor and a river which led to the hinterland. Slowly its farms turned into city blocks, its mud streets grew cobblestones, its docks stuck fingers into the sea. First its sewers, then its wires, and finally its trains went underground. The higher its buildings rose, the deeper went their foundations. Its bowels became a vast catacomb laced with the ganglia of communication. It was an aggressive organism; it touched everything within reach, attached to itself everything it touched...
Meanwhile, the railroad reached Anapolis and the town became the gateway to Brazil's rapidly growing west. Now Anapolis, with 15,000 rough-&-ready, gun-toting citizens, is as full of gusty confidence as west Texas. In the hinterland, droves of farmers are rushing in to buy up cheap land, plant corn, rice and beans...
...field hands once sang the song in the flat Mississippi Valley fields where the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad meanders down from St. Louis to Memphis, then spraddles put over the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas hinterland. This week the year of Jubilo began for the Cotton Belt's common stockholders. The Cotton Belt, which went bankrupt in 1935, finally paid a common stock dividend ($5), its first in its 57 years...