Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar schooling opportunities, and the Negro were to take advantage of them. Eli Ginzberg discusses this in his book, The Negro Potential: "If the education of southern negro males were brought up to the level of southern white males, the actual number of Negro high school graduates in the region would be tripled, from about 11,000 to about 32,000. If the education of northern Negroes were brought up to that of whites in the North, the number of Negro high school graduates in the North would be nearly doubled, from almost 14,000 to almost...
Stauffer's buy gave him a monopoly in the state capital as well as the surrounding region's only morning paper, the Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City...
...question of how the South will go found most observers in agreement. To hear such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and the Nashville Tennessean tell it, the region will again become the pre-1948 Democratic Solid South. As to the organized-labor vote, the Washington Evening Star, the Minneapolis Star and the Philadelphia Inquirer held that it could not be "delivered" by labor leaders. The Chicago Tribune asked skeptically: "Is there a labor vote...
Some 10,000 years ago, when glaciers chilled northern Europe, the Sahara desert was a fertile, well-watered land. Among the most favored parts of it must have been the Tassili-N-Ajjer, a plateau about 900 miles southeast of Algiers. Today the region is one of the driest deserts on earth and almost uninhabited, but in prehistoric and early historic times it boiled with vigorous life. Last week French Anthropologist Henri Lhote was back in Algiers with proof of what Tassili-N-Ajjer (which means river plateau) was like while the rains still came...
...high civilization ever developed in the Sahara, but the Tassili region seems to have been influenced for thousands of years by more advanced lands. The earliest paintings in the caves are primitive. Slightly later drawings are more sophisticated. Dr. Lhote believes that the ancient people of Taasili developed an independent artistic style not derived from cave art elsewhere...