Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explorer Harry St. John Bridger Philby has described the greater part of Yemen as "the worst mapped region of the inhabited globe." Its mountainous valleys are perhaps the most fertile in southern Arabia. Its almost deserted seaport of Mocha has become a synonym for coffee the world around. Coffee is still grown on Yemen's mountains but what little is exported goes through the port of Hodeida...
Though far apart in the public mind silver and sugar in the U. S. have much in common. Industrially both are small compared with Steel. Wheat, Automobiles, Cotton, Railroads. Geographically both centre in the same region-the Rocky Mountain states-and use the same spokesmen in Congress to voice their demands. Politically both have power to enforce those demands far out of proportion to their size or importance. Economically both have strong allies to mobilize to their support. Last week silver, with its implication of inflation (see p. 9) and sugar, with its implication of tariff-protected industry, monopolized...
...Prison-made products shall not be sold below the prices of non-prison-made goods in the same region...
...expedition will pay especial attention to the Katanga region where Dr. Strong will continue the studies he has made in the Congo...
...accepted the wage agreement] working through a military ringmaster [General Johnson], we prefer civil war." "I do not think," said Mr. Lewis contemptuously, "that it will come to that. Those operators seek to make a virtue of imposing more degrading working conditions and medieval barbarism than any other mining region"-and proceeded to pile it on until the Southerner, fuming with rage, confronted him, demanded that they "settle the question outside...