Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field Museum made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
...very centre of the paralyzed region, in his office at San Francisco's City Hall, sat Mayor Angelo Rossi. The clock on his desk ticked up to 8:01 a. m. That was the zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf...
...malformed children who died in first year, of imperfect men drafted for the War. The State of Washington showed the greatest proportion of dead malformed infants. Proceeding eastward the traced of these dead babies "can be traced beginning in Colorado, passing through Kansas, spreading to include the Great Lakes region and ending in New England, where Vermont presents the highest rate. When we proceed north beyond the regions of cyclones and to a maritime type of climate, Newfoundland for instance, the rate drops." Southern States where the climate is equable, have a negligible number of malformation births...
...When we examine the draft statistics for the northwestern States we deal with a population that has been exposed to the severe climatic conditions of the region for only two generations, since the mass of the population has been settled there since 1880 Here we have a new stock exposed to unusually severe climatic conditions and, in addition, living at a relatively high altitude. . . Here we have the genital malformations in the region of the cyclonic infall and along the storm tracks. Is it not likely that these malformations, which would tend to diminish in frequency in an older, permanently...
From coast to coast and border to border, every region will be covered by the commissioners. A flight over the Caribbean airways will probably be included. The committee will reassemble in Washington Sept. 1 to begin public hearings...