Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about. For in the name of its Warsaw Government of Poland, Russia had in effect taken over and set up its rule in the most important areas of eastern Germany last week. By this move Russia also took over Germany's (and Europe's) No. 2 industrial region...
Across the border, warned Congressman Gonzalez, Argentina looked like a country already at war. The railroad to Zapala carried nothing but soldiers and supplies. A network of new military roads led threateningly toward Chile. At Las Lajas, near the frontier, were barracks for an entire division. The region was teeming with ski troops, mountain artillery and airplanes. The local inhabitants were kept in alarm by officially inspired rumors that Chile was about to attack Argentina. This, said Congressman Gonzalez, was the familiar Hitler technique of pretending to be a victim in order to victimize...
...believe that all colonial powers in any given region and other countries who have a particular interest in the region should meet together in order to discuss their common problems, and to help each other to find their common solutions. So many problems today -economic, health and transportation-transcend the frontiers of individual units, and can only successfully be dealt with on a regional basis...
King & Matriarch. Author Ferber manipulates her old patterns with practiced ease. Vaughan Melendy, rich and rugged lumber-salmon king, is the spectacular Northwest, and vice versa. "Born into this gargantuan northwest region of giant forests, limitless waters, vast mountains, fertile valleys, he himself blended into the lavish picture and was one with it. . . . He digested it like the benevolent giant...
...Manhattan with a director of Union Oil. As Morinigo hoisted his food, he dropped a hint: oil gushed in the Bolivian Chaco, why not in the Paraguayan Chaco? The hint became a project. Soon three Union Oil geologists hacked their way through the Chaco brush. They reported that the region had a geological structure characteristic of oil fields...