Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in the Chaco region, where the little strip is located, it was said that the soldiers were "digging themselves in," preparing for hostilities; and it was hoped that the conference in Buenos Aires would arrive at a settlement before the troops made an accord impossible by attempting simultaneously to occupy the disputed territory...
...Russian geographer and digger persistent. Twenty years ago he found the dead city of Khara-Khoto whose last khan, Hara-Tzyan-Tzyun, buried 80 carloads of silver in a profound well before being wiped out by an Imperial Chinese army in the 13th Century. Digger Kozlov frequently revisits the region for further data. His latest expedition set out from Moscow last spring...
Thwarted thus far has been Leonor F. Loree's project of a fifth system in the same region (Wabash, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Western Maryland...
...sixth project was developed but recently by Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland, who mines coal in the Pittsburgh region. He controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...
...reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known, still opposed to a special session, it did not seem likely that Congress would meet before its regular time, or long enough before to make much difference to the flooded region...