Word: region
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stilt-legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired as Bade County superintendent of schools in 1952, asked for a challenging assignment when he offered his services to the U.S. Point Four program. "I decided," says Johnson, "to come out to a foreign land...
...have neither telephone nor telegraph, but they keep in touch through an elaborate network of signal fires and scores of runners who can relay a letter from 250 miles away within two days. One typical leader is a Madrid-educated lawyer known only as Sadek, who has stumped the region, whipping up the tribesmen with fiery speeches from balcony and rooftop. The chief of the Riffs' "central region'' is 33-year-old Mohammed Salem A'Mezzian, who claims he sent the King a list of 18 demands but never got a reply. Of all his demands...
...mistake of regarding foreign policy as essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing a gun, not even at a Chinese communist...
...turbine is only a beginning. Eventually New Zealand plans to get 250,000 kw. of geothermal electricity out of the Wairakei region, and hundreds of square miles of steam land are awaiting exploitation in the neighborhood...
Last week another merger was well past the talk stage. The Norfolk & Western and the Virginian Railway, which share the profitable soft-coal Pocahontas region with the Chesapeake & Ohio, announced that they had started studies for a merger that would add "strength to strength." Both lines are efficient operators but could profit by merging. Their merger would create a new system having 2,695 miles of main track in the South and combined assets of more than $900 million...