Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week-even making allowance for Stalinist hyperbole-this vast region, as big as European Russia, was experiencing an industrial and agricultural boom. It was reported that...
...cotton) hundreds of thousands of Uzbek and Tajik farmers last year produced a "miracle": in a little more than a month they dug a canal, 170 miles long, 25 yards wide and 15 to 30 feet deep, from the Narin River to the great cotton-growing region south of the ancient city of Kokand. This year the Great Fergana Canal was lengthened to 217 miles, now irrigates 838 square miles, improves the irrigation...
...time, part of the textile industry of the region was ruined because India, Japan and the U. S. set up their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
...This region became a prime target last June when Hitler began his air siege of Britain. Bombers flying overhead could hardly fail to find some industrial mark that was worth demolition, some spot on the network of railroads, rivers and canals where the flow of munitions could be tied up by well-placed explosive...
Liverpool and Hull, as the seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...