Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tenn. is the only Alcoa sheet plant in a U. S. prime defense area. B. F. Goodrich Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. is making gas-mask parts. Other TVA plants are making gun and shell parts, boilers, airplane fabrics, ferromanganese. Army shoes, blankets, underdrawers, etc. Biggest defense plant in the region will be Tennessee Powder Co. at Memphis, now being built by Du Pont engineers with British money. Of the new ordnance plants planned by the U. S. Army, one will probably be in TVA area...
Harvard University extends from Shanghai, China, to the Union of South Africa, but the part that interests Freshmen is mainly centered in Cambridge. But even that comparatively small region is much harder to navigate than it first appears to the incoming Freshman...
...zombi" into U. S. speech. Adventures in Arabia found Seabrook among the whirling dervishes, learning to become a trance mystic. Jungle Ways presented him studying magic on the Ivory Coast, photographing phallic monuments, eating human flesh ("like good, fully developed veal"). Asylum was a frank account of another weird region: a New York insane asylum where he was cured of dipsomania...
...approach to the St. Lawrence from northern Europe is longer (2,750 mi.) and relatively easy for the U. S. fleet to intercept from Atlantic ports. The main danger of invasion of the St. Lawrence region rests on the possibility that an invader might gain naval dominance in the Atlantic...
Last month this anti-Nazi drive began to centralize in the Misiones Territory. Although the German population of Misiones is less than 24% of the total and a majority of the Germans are not Nazis, a wealthy Hitler-minded minority controls most of the region's power plants, dominates its economy by a strangle hold on the mate trade. For these Nazis, Misiones is strategically perfect. It curves up in a thin tongue of land between Paraguay and Brazil; its hills and rivers afford a series of natural defenses in case of civil war. Bounded on the north, east...