Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Especially bitter fighting developed in one area of the North Stalingrad factory area as the great battle for that industrial region raged through its sixth day of climactic fury, the High Command's Monday midnight report said...
Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America...
...Fleet, he had maintained supremacy of the air over Stalingrad for a month. When winter froze the Russian front the Fourth Air Fleet might follow its commander to the Balkans, where it probably could cause a great deal of trouble to any plans the British might have for the region...
Near the native settlement of Efogi, the Australians, commanded by Lieut. General Sidney Rowell, finally stopped them. From Efogi the single trail fans out into a number of trails that curve down through the rolling valley to the south coastal region. Only 14 miles away is a hard-surfaced road which leads into the Allied base of Port Moresby...
...childbirth anesthetic was reported last week in the American Journal of Surgery by Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who developed it at the U.S. Marine Hospital (where wives of Coast Guardsmen have their babies) on Staten Island, N.Y. The anesthetic is continuous and localized in the pelvic region. A silver needle is inserted into the caudal area, just below the spinal column, where it remains throughout labor. The needle is connected with a flask of the anesthetic, two-thirds of an ounce of which is administered every 30 or 40 minutes. Longest labor during which the anesthetic has been...