Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor of plant physiology, after months of experimentation at the Atkins Institute in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The weed apparently eliminated by the experiment is the Aroma marabu weed, which had overgrown large acreages of sugar land on the island and is also a problem to cattle raisers in the region...
...Jewish scholars, and the greatest center of Hebrew culture in the world (all its classes are conducted in Hebrew). Its professors have developed new processes for local industries, all but arrested many of the diseases that once ravaged Palestine, set up the first cancer foundation in the region, carried on vast irrigation projects to help Palestine's struggling agriculture...
Latin America is the fastest-growing region in the world, according to Demographer Kingsley Davis, a member of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions of Princeton University. Recent census results seem to indicate that he is right. Last week Argentina announced the results of its May count: its population now stands at 16,107,930. Estimates in 1941 placed it at 13,318,320; at the last official census...
...single-track line that was chiefly notable for carrying Lincoln's funeral train in 1865. For years it carried little other traffic. Although the Monon's 541 miles of track tapped the rich Chicago and Ohio Valley areas, the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads carried the region's freight and passengers. In 1933 the Monon went into receivership. It all but stopped carrying passengers; they were a nuisance. It ran freight trains only when there was enough freight to fill them. Then the war brought an inescapable transfusion of freight traffic and a $12½ million...
...names brigade, but have few financial beefs. Los Angeles' Al Jarvis (KLAC), the favorite in Southern California, takes in $190,000; Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub. The chance to chatter at a microphone brings the nightspot dozens of extra celebrities...