Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition of four men intends to survey for oil the whole of Afghanistan and 180-000, square miles of territory in Iran. The equipment includes a portable bathtub and palm beach suits for evening wear in camp. The region is practically unknown geographically...
...Palestine's Jews and Arabs from each other's throats were faced with a new poser last week. In a shallow grave in an orange grove near Tel Aviv was discovered the moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen...
Symbolic was the fact that last week the first freighter out of Duluth carried not ore but scrap iron. Since mining began in the Superior region, more than $3,000,000,000 worth of ore from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell...
...last week's end, C. I. Organizers met trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section...
South of Madrid the driving Leftists advanced within 65 miles of beauteous Seville, "Queen City of Andalusia," but Rightist forces avoided a "bottling-up drive" launched to entrap them. Some 10,000 Italians were reported defending this rich orange-growing region and the nearby sherry country. According to London trade figures released last week, England continues to buy almost exactly as great a volume of oranges and sherry as last year from "Business as Usual" Spain-the only difference being that this year the British have had to pay cash. North of Madrid last week the Rightist offensive of General...