Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost Towns. The articles became the talk of the region. They described the massacre of 12,000 Indians in the Battle of Flint Top-a battle no one had ever heard of. They showed that Greene and Washington Counties included earlier and more important cities than Pittsburgh. He had maps and descriptions of Razortown and Augusta Town, two famous "lost" towns whose sites had baffled historians...
...Amazon region is tough to explore on the surface, and almost unknown geologically. But both the Amazon and the towering Andes were covered some 200 million years ago by the same shallow sea. An unexplained disturbance wrinkled the earth's crust. The western part of the sea bottom was lifted high in the air, where its sedimentary strata lie exposed today. The rest (toward the east) is still deeply buried under the tangled jungle...
...apparently extended from eastern Brazil to islands on the present site of the Andes. It was not a tropical sea, but temperate, since the animals that lived in it are characteristic of cool water. It must have extended without a break right past the equator and into the region of the present Mississippi Valley. In those .days the same shellfish lived in Peru and in Oklahoma...
Dissension entered the otherwise harmonious sessions yesterday afternoon during confirmation of officers elected previously at a regional caucus of the NSA Madison founding convention. Chairman Lawrence Jaffa 2 Div was unanimously reelected. But Miriam Haskell of Smith, was replaced in a 32-20 vote by William Tracy of Springfield College, as the second spokesman for the region on the organization's national executive committee...
...into Inches. The Federal Power Commission last week granted permission to the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to pipe Texas natural gas to Philadelphia and the Appalachian region through the wartime Big and Little Big Inch pipelines. Tetco bought the pipelines last February (TIME, Feb. 24) for $143 million, conditional on FPC permission. Coal-hauling railroads and John L. Lewis' coal miners tried to block the piping...