Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers, they thought of the locust plagues of the Bible, called the cicadas "locusts." The 17-year cicada is the longest lived of any known insect. One or more broods appear in the eastern U. S. every year. Brood IX, which appeared on schedule last year in its usual region, has a small range-parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. This year's Brood X, hatching from eggs laid in 1919, is among the largest. It ranges from Michigan to Georgia, from eastern Missouri to Long Island. Tibicina septendecim is a toothless insect, does not eat plants...
Still sniffing oil, Dick Norton, on the strength of his gas, made a deal with United Gas Public Service Co., (an Electric Bond & Share unit controlled through Electric Power & Light) for a test drilling of lower sands in the Rodessa region. When the first Rodessa oil gushed into United Gas's slush pits last July it came from 6,000 feet down. Two months later a 25,000-barrel well brought in a mile and a half to the northeast proved that the Rodessa field, at this depth, extended over a respectable area. Since then more than...
...expedition is to explore map, and study an area of some 3000 square miles in a region that is probably farther from a railroad than any other point in the United States. Dr. Charles D. N. Winning of New York University will receive applications sent to him at the Explorer's club, New York City...
...Hero Parker joined a distinguished company of Medal of Honor men which included: Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised...
...Greist's Alaskan medical-missionary district covers about 120,000 square miles. Over the tundra of that vast region he was accustomed to make two trips a year by dog-team, carrying the Gospel and purgatives to the Eskimos, performing marriages, pulling teeth...