Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back up the mountain hurried Candidate Dewey, to Salt Lake City, where Republicans were cordial to the point of frenzy; to the Snake River Valley of Idaho, where he lauded the independence of homegrown cooperatives; to Boise past the irrigation projects, the forest reserves, the oil reserves, the region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America we have the manpower, the wealth, the natural resources, the genius to invent and create. We have the industrial skill to release...
...film is preceded by a short on the subject of the French Pyrences region which alone is worth the trudge over to the Divinity Avenue cinema hall. There are to be performances all day today; admission is by Bursar's card. Mrs. Edward K. Rand, through whose efforts the French films are made available without obligation to Harvard and Radcliffe, deserves the appreciative plaudits of everyone who has had the opportunity of enjoying them...
...facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the Circle) is the Soviet Union's pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the pioneering U. S. 100 years ago. Since 1932 the U. S. S. R. has systematically explored its northland, not only for its resources (nickel, copper, lumber, coal, reindeer, fish, fur), but in an ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation...
...richest part of Western Poland is being unceremoniously stolen from the Poles and deeded over to the Germans as the real proprietors are packed off in foul-smelling trains to the war-torn region of Warsaw...
...been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself as a porter...