Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third. Eliot House, now being built on the site of the demolished power plaut at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston St., fronting the river (and to be finished by next autumn), will be a fourth unit, and three older dormitories of the Mt. Auburn St. region. Randolph and Russell Halls, with Westmorly Court, will be a fifth, making in all seven Houses. One more new dormitory will be built in the Yard for the Freshmen. It will stand in the space bounded by Massachusetts Ave, on the south, Wardsworth House on the west. Grays Hall and the Widener...
...While the damage has been serious [along] the Ohio river, in parts of the Rocky Mountain region, in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and certain of the southern states, the drought has not been serious in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys...
...Norwegian whalers. In charge of the expedition is Captain Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag, for the large-scale Antarctic whaling industry is conducted by English, Norwegian and Danish vessels, many of which are controlled by Anglo-Norwegian Holdings, Ltd., whose shares are traded in on the New York Curb. If the Frango does well, American Whaling Co. will...
...France and Spain. The Mediterranean region has long been a fertile field for the archeologist's shovel. Although many Stone Age relics have been unearthed there, they have been somewhat neglected for findings of the more brilliant Minoan, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman periods. Feeling that prehistoric man was much smarter than is commonly believed, Charles Gates Dawes, banker, musician, ambassador and archeologist, has been taking a holiday in France and Spain to co-ordinate Stone Age findings. With him went Professor George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe and Addison...
...which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...