Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First & foremost reason: John Lewis had ordered it. They made the strike all that John Lewis could have demanded. They not only walked out of the captive mines, they struck at mines already under contract-in the Allegheny County region around Pittsburgh, along the Monongahela River Valley, in the mountains of West Virginia. Only a few tried to keep on working. At Edenborn, Pa., a group of them posted themselves around the slate dump, fired on pickets with revolvers and shotguns, wounded more than a dozen...
...great battlefield of 1942. It is difficult to predict whether any particular phase of the war will be decisive, but obviously when and if the Germans strike out for the oil in the Caucasus and the oil in Iran and seek to attack our Middle Eastern position, this region will become the main theater...
...such monstrosities, grammatical or otherwise, mar Windswept. It is an ideal book for the Christmas lists, a gift for mother and for young nieces who want to write. Its central subject is a house and a promontory on the savage Maine coast, a region which is Novelist Chase's Wessex. A family of thoughtful New Englanders share their love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind...
...Army game was a disgusting spectacle, when all the roughs of the region invaded the field, spoiled the game, and destroyed the goalposts. Why the College should sit fatly by and watch the riot, I cannot understand. Could not a couple of hundred students, or police with fire-hose, be mobilized to guard the field and posts? Or could not the posts be electrified so as to shock any who touched them, even to the extent of fixing the touchers to the posts, so that all could be carted down to the River and thrown in? Or perhaps best...
Professor Emeritus Julian L. Coolidge, who is in charge of the course, chaired the meeting and introduced the other speakers. Mr. J. M. Laughlin, Assistant Regional Director of the First Civilian Defense Region, spoke first, and emphasized the fact that New England, with its concentration of industry and extensive military and naval strength would be the first target in case of eventual attack...