Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictators to earthquake. Neither the King of Kings nor President Kemal lacks personal courage. During the fêtes, rejoicings, fireworks, skewered lamb and champagne at Ankara last week news came of severe earthquakes in Western Turkey, the very region through which Host Kemal was about to escort Guest Pahlevi. Neither showed the slightest desire to cancel these plans. The royal Persian junket became an earnest inspection trip through the shaken area down to Smyrna with homeless families watching the Near East's two Strong...
...crop was conceded to be destroyed and cattle were let in to munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago wheat exchange, wheat rose almost its 5? limit to $1.07. This meant money only...
...Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
Last week the Central Executive Committee promoted Biro-Bidjan from a territory to a Jewish Autonomous Region with one representative in the Soviet Council of Nationalities. It further promised that when the Jewish population (now about 8,000) reaches 30.000, Biro-Bidjan will become an autonomous republic with five representatives in the Council of Nationalities. Said Boris I. Trotsky, vice-chairman of the Government's committee for putting Jews on the land: "This has nothing in common with Zionism. We do not propose to create a state for all the Jews in the world...
...shaved off by Pleistocene glaciers. Mr. Glasgow ascribed it to the Silurian period-400,000,000 years ago. At that time the U. S. Midwest was covered by a broad bay of the ocean reaching up from what is now Central America, as numberless marine fossils found in the region testify. Lake Michigan's coral is the farthest north ever found...