Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norway is trying to steal East Greenland!" stormed the Danes. Editorials in the Norwegian press pointed out that, although Denmark claims all Greenland, the region of East Greenland has never been thoroughly explored (much less settled) by white men and has long been claimed by Norway (TIME, June 8 et ante). In Copenhagen last week, Norway and all her works were excitedly denounced in both houses of the Danish parliament, the Landsting and the Folketing...
...their research at the University of Berlin. In lieu of their presence, they sent a report, read by Dr. Alexander Goetz of Caltech, which caused much amazement. In 1927 the two first rigged a wire between two peaks at Monte Generoso, near the Italian-Swiss border. That is a region of frequent and violent thunderstorms. Like Benjamin Franklin, the Germans intended to bring lightning to earth. When the rigging was set and lightning bolted, the emitted sparks jumped a 15-ft. gap. Improved rigging carried lightning sparks which spanned 55 ft. That meant that 16,000,000 volts had momentarily...
...Park. The President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone lines worth another $100,000. They insisted that the presidential improvements enlarged the value of their timber land far beyond what Virginia was ready...
...appears certain, furthermore, that Bohemia, the region in which the expedition has thus far concentrated, was the cultural stimuli to the north and west, where our own rude ancestors lived. The contact of these folk with Central Europe remained of great importance until the Roman Empire spread across the continent, but those who lived in the northern and western parts of the British Isles were never conquered by Rome, nor were most of the people of Germany, or the Scandinavians, among whom must be classed the English, who at this early date had not yet lived in their native land...
...reduced his advertising. The exploring business this season is mainly professional. Mr. Fiala's big customers are the Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number of U. S. amateurs, notably Artist Rockwell Kent, are heading for convenient subArctic regions. For the effete, the Soviet Government has organized a tour this summer aboard the icebreaker Maligin from Archangel to Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. When the Maligin reaches its "top," above 83° N. Latitude, ambitious tourists may make a short airplane flight towards the North Pole. The minute...