Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud but sleepy Charleston...
...Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...
...Chinese think differently. Their troops were last week on the offensive in southeast Hupeh, almost captured Nanchang in Kiangsi Province. China's reborn air force last week raided Japanese bases in Shansi, downed four enemy planes...
...federal fund and still refrain from interference with local policy. To tax one part of the country in order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools of the standard set elsewhere. In 1930 its farm population included 13 per cent of the nation's children, but its farmers produced only two per cent of the nation's income. If the youth of rural America are to have equality in education, the Harrison Bill...
...stated. "The annoxation of Austria and the Sudeten area has presented the Third Reich with organizational problems of the first magnitude not solved thus far. Germany's Eastern neighbors, though nominally attached to the Berlin-Rome axis, are certainly no reliable partners in any military test. German penotrotion of Southeast Europe which she began with the emasculation of Czechoslovakia has not progressed beyond the first stage...