Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Island in turn can be dominated by the vast, mostly Russian region between the Elbe and Amur - the "Heart land" which the Germans hoped to conquer...
Sixth OPA Region Administrator...
...York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia. The voice was the voice of California chambers of commerce, but the hands were the hands of Russia...
...same latitude as Duluth, Minn., "but with lots more sunshine." Its fertile soil yielded rich crops (wheat, oats, cabbage, rice, soy beans). Its natural resources were rich and variegated (coal, iron ore, gold, graphite, marble, magnesite). Its woods teemed with fur-bearing animals. "According to scientific surveys," the region could maintain a population of at least four million...
...grip on the Army tightened. Royalist Lieut. General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...