Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yangtze basin is the most prosperous and economically the most important part of China. It is a matter of preeminent national necessity that our efforts be designed not merely to save the unfortunate inhabitants but also to restore the productivity of the region...
...herd-195 adults, 50 calves-is on the 20,000-acre Goodnight ranch, 40 mi. southeast of Amarillo, Tex. That whole region until the 1870's was the grazing ground of vast buffalo herds. Pioneers wanted the prairies for cattle-raising, between 1868 and 1878 deliberately killed practically every buffalo...
Wichita is an excellent place for goiter experiment. The region was archaically the bottom of a sea. Its soil contains much iodine. Goiter is consequently rare. In that propitious environment he fed animals with food low in both iodine and calcium. The animals did not develop goiter. Instead, their thyroids atrophied. Then to iodine-deprived animals he gave large quantities of calcium-containing foods. At once they developed goiter...
...coal mines to live up to scheduled production was one of the chief weaknesses of the Five-Year Plan, a decree was issued last week putting into effect the Stalin suggestions and the similar recommendations of U. S. Mining En gineer Charles E. Stuart. Half the mines in the region must be mechanized by the end of the year. Workers are to be paid according to their skill with bonuses for good work. Direction of the mines is to be taken from workers' committees and given to individually responsible managers. To better miners' living conditions food lines must...
...months ago a flyer named Trist, onetime Royal Australian Air Force pilot, was lost in the bush near Zenang, New Guinea, while flying in the service of New Guinea Airways. A searching party of 50 natives and a white man beat their way into the region but were forced back by hostile tribesmen. Last week two natives emerged from the bush with the story that Trist's airplane had crashed, that the pilot had struggled on foot to the nearest village, that the villagers had butchered him, eaten him at a feast...