Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalinski, just north of Moscow, and Stalinogorsk, to the south (important now because it supplies more than half of Moscow's electric power), were both in the paths of the German pincers on the Capital. Stalino, capital of the Donets region in the eastern Ukraine, was already passed in the new southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near...
This week Heinrich Himmler and his merry men learned that in Nantes, Occupied France, two rebels had pumped lead into the loftiest Nazi victim yet-General Holtz, Commandant of the whole Nantes region...
...individual Americans have so directly or so powerfully influenced the history and development of so vast a region-and few have been so completely forgotten-as Henry Shreve, Mississippi keelboatman, who, by the time he was 35: 1) broke Pittsburgh's monopoly of the fur trade; 2) broke Canada's monopoly of the Western lead trade; 3) broke the Livingston-Fulton monopoly of steamboating on the Mississippi with his shallow-draught, double-deck river steamboat; 4) made navigation safe by inventing a snag-pulling boat with which he cleared some 1,500 miles of river; 5) opened...
...Henderson's Office of Price Administration announced a new ceiling: 8.25? for prime Western, highest published price for zinc (with brief exceptions) since World War I. The extra penny, said OPA, would bring out more low-grade ore, help hard-pressed mine owners in the Tri-State zinc region (Missouri/Oklahoma, Kansas) pay wages that would keep miners from shifting to other jobs. One estimate of the likely production boost...
While these conservative groups do not necessarily believe in Hitler, they are not sure that a Nazi victory would not be as good for them as a democratic victory in the war. Fascists in the Latin American region are not generally pro- Hitler, but rather favor fascism as a form of government...