Word: hinterlands
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...unmarried sons between 15 and 30 are currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city jobs or in the U.S. Colonization schemes in the '30s and early '40s have drawn 11,300 families into Quebec's great hinterland. To help lure more to the soil, the Quebec government is ready today to sell approved families (they must meet certain requirements as to health, etc.) 100 acres at 30? an acre. It will also provide free transportation, the use of tractors, monthly allowances of $15 for from three months...
When he rented a cottage in the hinterland for the summer, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of Government, did so with the idea that his landlord was going to dig a garbage disposal pit on the grounds...
...Chinese Government signed a new treaty with France. The weakened Fourth Republic gave up its old extraterritoriality rights in China. It also agreed to special privileges for China in French Indo-China-a free port at Haiphong and railway rights from the Indo-China coast to the South China hinterland...
...brooding quiet settled over Indonesia. It was the quiet of a faintly smoking volcano. Here & there snipers' rifles cracked. But mostly the British and Dutch sat waiting behind their guns in strongholds of European authority like Batavia, Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung. Beyond these cities, in the rich hinterland of Java, under the red-&-white flag of the Indonesian Republic, the nationalist leaders of 50,000,000 people were also marking time...
...century, to the bafflement of laymen and the delight of language fans like H. L. Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...