Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured over Dordrecht (pop. 70,000) a little to the southeast. In a matter of hours, roughly a sixth of The Netherlands' 13,000 sq. mi.-an area where 1,000,000 Dutchmen make their homes-was devastated...
...Eight "master blocks," each covering about 1 sq. mi. and having at its center a school, churches, recreation area and swimming pool. ¶Three or four "neighborhoods" of 400 to 600 families within each master block. ¶Segregated areas for business and light industry. ¶A main shopping center (55 acres) conveniently located near the downtown business district. Some 500 applications for space have poured in from merchants; the city's shopping center will probably become a center for all of lower Bucks County within a radius of 15 to 25 miles. There will also be small groups...
...tiny Saar, a miniature (1,000 sq. mi.) Ruhr populated by Germans but ruled by functionaries of France, last week freely chose to stay as it is: an "autonomous" bailiwick attached to France...
George Geiger's death in the tiny (1,000 sq. mi.) coal-rich Saar basin, the No. 1 trouble spot in Western Europe, set the Rhine River foaming with ancient controversy. On the German shore. Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher flatly accused the Saar's French bosses of "political murder." From the French bank came shouts of rage. "The Germans are up to their old tricks of 1938, when they accused the Poles of similar atrocities," snapped an unforgiving Quai d'Orsay staffer...
Kazuko was living alone with her second husband, Kikuichiro, on tiny (2 mi. by 5 mi.) Anatahan Island in the Marianas when the survivors of three bombed Japanese ships swam ashore in 1945. For three years the couple lived with the castaways, until one day Kazuko's husband was murdered. "I felt lonely," says Kazuko, and she took up with one of the castaways. After 20 days of bliss, her lover was drowned. She went to live with another, the man who had killed her husband. "At first I repelled him coldly, but a weak woman is no match...