Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
...President-elect Eusebim Ayala of Paraguay did his best to avoid war with Bolivia in the disputed region of Gran Chaco where sniping between Paraguayan and Bolivian outposts goes on year after year (TIME...
...operates the largest bottled spring and distilled water business in the world and 20% of its revenue comes from this source. It also sup plies electric light, power and natural gas to 80 California communities in two areas. Most important of these areas is the industrial region in Contra Costa County (along the northeast shore of San Francisco Bay) which includes the plants of Johns-Manville, Associated Oil, Union Oil, Hercules Powder, American Smelting & Refining, U. S. Steel, Zellerbach Paper. The other district includes the cities of Santa Cruz (seaside resort), Gilroy, Watsonville, Hollister and San Juan...
...Author. Born in 1876 in the peasant region of Namdalen, north of Trondjem, Norway, Author Duun has written exclusively of the life of his native parish, though his books are far from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than...
...Subscriber Wonders henceforth beware of the exceedingly modest, middle-sized man who sat across from him at a Scottish Rite Lodge of Masons' banquet in Constantinople (now Istanbul). There is only one "General Kemal the defender of the region which included Constantinople during the Great War" and he is today the Dictator of Turkey, Mustapha Kemal Pasha...