Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only plumbing facilities were the jungle bush behind their rickety shacks. Cametá had no doctor, and there is no record of how many Cametenses died each year from dysentery, hookworm, malaria and typhus, but these and other communicable diseases accounted for 55% of all deaths in the Amazon region which includes Camet...
...eliminating special "blooming" mills (where steel is rolled in clothes-wringer-like machines) and the conveyer tables to feed them, continuous casting will make a drastic cut in the cost of every ton of steel produced. Eventually, it may also decentralize the industry, giving each region its own steel mills, for the machines are relatively cheap to build, and easy to house...
There is no known design that will do all these things and still be a useful airplane. Wings that are efficient below Mach i do not serve above it. The behavior of an airframe in the transonic region is still a frightening unknown. But designers are working hard and hopefully. They are sure that by the time they have the proper airframe, they will have engines with plenty of power for the job. Engine men predict confidently that turbojet engines will work efficiently at least as high as Mach 1.5 (1,145 m.p.h...
They go fastest in the region just beyond Changchun's perimeter. There, between Nationalist and Communist lines, is one of the no man's lands known as "san-pu-kuan" (three-don't-care), signifying territory where neither Nationalist, Communist nor local authority bothers to exercise control. This is a dark and bloody ground for bandits, usually army deserters, who prey on the passing crowd. They have guns, horses and passwords...
...effortless sprint of Waugh's prose discovered a new region of perverse innocence unshadowed by any moral concepts whatever, it was clear that a new master of English satire had emerged...