Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five times a day radio stations called for volunteers. Newspapers, Negro ministers and schoolteachers, white sheriffs and policemen blanketed the county with appeals. The wage offered was $1 for each 100 lb. picked, as high a rate as the region has ever known. Workers would be transported from the city of Montgomery to the fields without charge...
With its harvest in, North Africa is now nearly back to normal. Always a grain-exporting region, its grain surplus this year may run as high as 500,000 tons. The French in Tunisia are stockpiling some of it to help feed France if & when. Some of the money the U.S. spent has already been repaid in North African cork, phosphates, iron ore and olive oil. The French have also paid $25,000,000 in cash...
...tongue has fallen into almost complete disuse within the past generation or two, and most of the residents of the Pacific Northwest know nothing of it beyond the few words that have gone into everyday colloquial English use in that region [such as]: skookum, siwash, tilikum, cultus and cheechako...
...captive mine region around Uniontown, Pa., where coking coal is dug for nearby mills that own the mines, Lewis' order did not stick. First at Brownsville, then at Uniontown, groups of miners worked against union officials who were trying to get them back into the pits. When local election on the question brought a mixed result, self-appointed pickets roved from shaft to shaft, arguing, pleading, jeering at the returning workers, Thus, at the height of the outlaw strike, 24,000 miners were idle, cutting production a daily average of 200,000 tons for 18 days. Since this type...
...dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further acid secretion." The doctors healed the ulcer in three days by bandaging it with a petrolatum poultice. Atropine, which is often given to soothe ulcer sufferers, cut down Tom's mucus secretion. Therefore the doctors believe atropine should not be generally used for ulcers (except occasionally...