Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably, in times of great warmth even the Antartic and Arctic region flourished with vegetation...
...Pacific War Memorial's organizers (chairman: Archibald B. Roosevelt) believe that the Americans who died in the Pacific war deserve a better monument than the usual buildings or pretentious statuary. When the U.S. captured the island empire of the Japanese, it took possession of a region which was almost unknown scientifically. Many of the islands have birds, animals and plants that are found nowhere else; some of them may prove useful to the rest of the world. The ocean around the islands teems with fish which might be a valuable addition to the world's food supply...
Twelve years age, Hitler grabbed the Ruhr. Without it, the German war machine would have been weak, and the incredibly successful conquests of 1939 to 1942 impossible. But with the most concentrated industrial region in the world working for him, Hitler conquered Europe. Once the Nazis were defeated, the Allied coalition determined to control the Ruhr, to make sure that Germany would never again have the productive means for war. Originally, the Allies planned to pull up the factories by the foundations and turn the Ruhr into a pasture-land. This drastic position was, however, economically dangerous, and slowly gave...
...international authority should control both production and distribution. Germans can manage plants, but Germans should not decide what those plants produce. By preparing the way for German control of Europe's greatest industrial region, the governments of the United States and Britain have greatly damaged European unity, and the concept of a cooperative Atlantic community...
Alice Gilbert '49, chairman of the northern New England region of NSA, issued an appeal for College and Radcliffe linguists last night. Undergraduate translators who are fairly fluent in any language are needed at local NSA headquarters at 18 Brattle st., she said, to translate digests of incoming foreign language newspapers and letters...