Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...region in the southern Adirondack is one of the most famous geological study grounds in the country. Here the summer student may study easily early Paleozoic sediments overlapping the Precambrian complex as he "roughs it" according to the best geological tradition, living in a tent and sleeping in a folding...
...belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from a nice, quiet revolution . . . not a Communistic revolt . . . a revision of the region's implanted ideas, a clarification of issues, a realistic and direct recognition of existing social problems, a redirection of the South's courage and audacity, and a determination that the Southern conscience shall be accorded the reverence due a sacred thing...
...finally decided to have a banking system. After much miaowing and alternate complaints from different schools of bankers, politicians and economists, a system was worked out. Instead of following European models and establishing one big bank-for-banks, a decentralized system was set up: twelve central banks in twelve regions of the U. S., each bank owned by its customers-the member banks of that region. Over all was set the correlating Federal Reserve Board, appointed by the President...
Ascents are to be made of the principal peaks in the region visited. These will include the Weisshorn, the Breithorn, and Monta Rosa, the second loftiest mountain of Europe, which is considered one of the best of Alpine climbs and said to offer some of the finest snow work in Switzerland...
...temple, situated as it was in a barren mountain region far from any town, was built and maintained by the ancient Egyptians solely in connection with the turquoise mines at that point from approximately 3000 B. C. to 1500 B. C. The mines were exploited by the Egyptians from the twelfth to the eighteenth dynastics, and probably were also worked intermittently by the local tribes...