Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite so hard hit are the semi-industrial, semi-agricultural regions such as upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Cold blast furnaces drove trade in the Pittsburgh region down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part...
Measles is the biggest epidemic of all. It has struck in the Atlantic States (exclusive of New England) and in the Great Lakes region, and there have been about three times the average number of cases. The epidemic started in November and by February had already produced almost as many cases as had occurred by March or April in the epidemics of 1934 and 1935. Said the Public Health Service report: "The number of reported cases is still increasing and so it seems likely that the present epidemic will be more severe than the two previous...
...been a local dream for 50 years but only in the last three has exploitation actually begun, and that almost solely through the efforts of a onetime hunter of dinosaur eggs named Gilbert Elledy Gable. Since 1935 Gilbert Gable has wrought such changes in southwestern Oregon that the region has been called his "empire." Last week Emperor Gable was dethroned by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Missouri's "boot heel" region, mules were stripped of their hair, chickens cleanly plucked...
...high concentration. In most of the mice, hemorrhage then occurred at the cancer site. This was soon covered by a scab which in time was thrown off and the wound eventually healed. The cancer had disappeared, leaving no trace except a slight sparseness of hair over the region it once occupied. Five months after treatment there were no recurrences. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics last week Dr. Lewisohn gave the percentage of cancerous mice thus cured...