Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon is deeply worried over the small progress towards dispersing U.S. industry. Air Secretary Harold Talbott has already warned that the Air Force plans to discourage further expansion of plane and missile factories in Southern California, where 25% of the region's payroll is devoted to military aircraft production...
Schlüter turned to politics, and displayed a blatant affinity for Naziism. "National Socialism is the most healthy movement in Germany since the turn of the century." he is reported to have shouted from a political platform. In the ultranationalist region of Lower Saxony and in the disorder of early postwar politics, such demagoguery served him well. But he always knew when to shift his line, when to recall his Jewish blood and pose as a victim of the Nazis...
Most likely candidate as proprietor of the pebble culture was Australopithecus prometheus, a smallish, erect-walking creature whose brain was just big enough to equip him intellectually as a maker of tools. Prometheus was plentiful in the Makapan region, but his remains had never been found with pebble tools...
Also visiting are the Elmer E. Rasmusson family from Anchorage Alaska. Mr. Rasmusson is president of the bank there, and a hearty booster for the region...
...push a twelve-year, $2 billion southern revival program. Hampered by petty politics, minor graft and insufficient funds ($180 million yearly), the Cassa has moved slowly for the size of the job, but results are already apparent. It has stimulated $320-million worth of private investment in the region. It has built 18,000 new farm houses, 1,800 miles of road, and increased electrical consumption by 43% It has created new employment equivalent to about 200,000 full-time jobs, added 2% to Italy's national income and given land to the landless. As of last October...