Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China's alluvial Yangtze plains, recent Communist newspapers describe how peasants are selling farm implements and animals, in Anhwei province even their own children, in exchange for a decent bite to eat. In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that...
...South American region freed from Spain by Liberator Simón Boliv...
...biggest island in the Mediterranean were subjected to a fresh invasion. This one was noisy but peaceable, consisting of a stream of orating visitors from the Italian mainland. The attraction was not Sicily's resources or its harshly lovely geography, but its political loyalties. As a semi-autonomous region of the Italian Republic, Sicily was preparing to elect a new regional parliament...
Rikitake reasoned that the basaltic lava forced up through Mihara's throat is strongly magnetic when it is cold. Like other materials, however, it loses its magnetism when it gets hot. Therefore, the region near the volcano's white-hot core should be less magnetic than other places a little farther away. Rikitake checked this theory by circling the mountain with his instruments. A chart of the magnetic field also showed the shape of the hot and hidden core...
...ceremonial sendoff marked the official opening of Canada's newest major mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...