Word: southeasterners
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...will keep His arm around me," said a Southern oil-lease broker a while back, "I'll produce oil in Georgia." Up to last week, Georgia was not yet an oil state-but it had begun to look as if the Lord had His arm around the whole southeastern U.S. Conservative oilmen are still talking conservatively, but even they admit that the Southeast is now enjoying the biggest oil-land boom since the 1930s...
Prentiss M. Brown, ex-OPA boss, ex-Senator from Michigan, got a new job last week. He was named chairman of Detroit Edison Co.-southeastern Michigan's great $390-million public utility...
This week Mili Atoll in the southeastern Marshalls, less than 100 miles southeast of U.S. positions on Majuro, was plastered by carrier-based bombers, shelled by battleships. It was the first time the battleships had unlimbered their guns since Eniwetok last month...
...known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...
...solemnly assured the docile Parliament that the Hungarian State had always been based on democratic principles, always pursued a democratic policy "in the best meaning of the word. The Hungarian kingdom must be restored," he added amid cheers. "Restoration would bring about a solidification and pacification ... of the whole southeastern European sphere...