Word: regionalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Triangle. Ultimate core of Polish defense is the triangular Central Region of Industry (C. O. P.) between Cracow on the west, Lwów on the east, Lublin on the north. Into this area, guarded by highlands, served by two rivers, Poland two years ago moved her vital steel and munitions works, built power plants, at a cost...
...Condor of the Andes" was the style his countrymen gave this thoughtful, daring son of a German settler and Bolivian mother after he, in his late twenties, explored the wild Zamucos region. He served brilliantly in the Chaco War, afterwards was high in the military junta. When President Sorzano ruled too long by decree, Lieut. Colonel Busch was the Army's choice to supplant him. Last spring, banking on his enormous prestige with Bolivia's tea-colored masses, he declared a totalitarian State which he insisted derived from neither Germany nor Italy (TIME...
Sullivan, a local character who represents the Harvard Square region in the City Council, patriotically resents his ward's being named after John Harvard, who, he says, never set foot in this city...
...backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater danger from attack across the German border in the area between Breslau and the Moravian Gate. In this region many an observer believes that the first great battle of a German-Polish war may be fought...
There are only two things to do when a forest fire gets out of hand: run for your life or dig in. In the Dutch Canyon region, Brothers George, Cliff and Art Kittleson and an employe called Smoky saved their lives by scooping a deep hole, burying themselves all but their faces, lying there for seven hours while the holocaust passed over...