Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also hit the shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...
...Ponape before World War I, a few scientists made sketchy reports. Nonscientific visitors have written up the mystery without solving it. Some archeologists believe the ruins to be 3,000 years old, and attribute them to "Protomalayans" or "Protopolynesians." Another theory favors kinky-haired Melanesians from the New Guinea region, who build less ambitious islands off their own coasts today...
...latest case is the "Olkhovatka Hermes." Olkhovatka is a remote rural region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Its Hermes is one Comrade Vakhlin, the "unrelenting" prosecutor of a local committee engaged in snooping into irregularities on collective farms. He was nicknamed for the mythological Hermes, who, according to the Soviet press, once stole a sheep, saying to the owner as he made off: "Don't do as I do, do as I tell...
...from such fun & games was a grisly speech by Major General Curtis E. LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. The future looked black to General LeMay, except for deadly flashes of atomic light. "Our frontier now lies across the Arctic wastes of the polar region. . . . The war will start with bombs and guided missiles falling on the U.S. . . . Any of the principal industrial nations can, by say 1950, develop a controlled air weapon that will deliver several tons of explosives with great accuracy over ranges of 3,000 to 6,000 miles...
Hammond did not start from scratch. His father, John Hays Hammond Sr., was a fabulous gold-mining engineer. With slam-bang empire-builder Cecil Rhodes, he was involved in the Jameson Raid (which helped to provoke the Boer War) and built up the world's greatest gold-producing region around Johannesburg, South Africa. These activities made him rich...