Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green, open-water lakes. Pictures were taken and the news was rushed back to the mother ship. A few days later, another Mariner landed on one of the lakes. The crew took samples of the water, declared it was "definitely warmer" than most water in the Antarctic region...
...note specified the Canale river valley, the region of Goriza, Venetian Slovenia, Montfalcone, Trieste and the northwestern section of Istria as areas which should have been taken away from Italy and given to Yugoslavia
...Antarctic may even develop into another Klondike, the professor muses, although the only "gold" discovered so far has been black. Transporting coal across the miles of treacherous ice would not be profitable, he says, but if gold or uranium should be found in the region, the race would...
...south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted by American standards, stirring out of torpor...
...Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high disaster...