Word: southeasterners
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Other factors responsible for population growth include development of the great southeastern New Mexico oil fields, the potash mines, and other mineral development. Permanent residents have come to New Mexico as health seekers, to retire, to establish new businesses in fast-growing communities...
...bulks large only because of the shortage of oil in Europe. (Rumania's production is about equal to that of Ohio, 16th in production of U. S. oil States.) Moreover, wars, repeated invasions since early Roman times, and political oppression have kept the people of southeastern Europe an impoverished peasantry. Yet in their possession are the greatest agricultural riches of the Old World. Today, the permanent ownership of those riches is vital to Europe's big three dictators...
...down through a hole in the cloud layer one night and, crossing Berlin from northwest to south east, dropped high explosives and incendiaries amid an angry inferno of bursting shrapnel and "flaming onions." The raiders hit seven widely separated districts of Greater Berlin, including Gorlitzer Railroad Station in the southeastern industrial and freighting section. Even as civilians were dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding nights more British bombs fell, more Berliners died, as 100-lb. demolition charges tore down through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again...
Died. William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, 29, famed U. S. winter-sportsman, driver of winning Olympic bobsleds (1928, 1932), reputedly the first American to join the R. A. F. as a pilot; of wounds received during aerial combat; somewhere in southeastern England. In 1938 Mr. Fiske married the beauteous Countess of Warwick...
...operations were not themselves successful, the British Fleet might so expose itself that it would lose too many vessels to be able to continue the defense of Britain. These were the grim possibilities which the British had to face when they again studied the strategic problem of defending their southeastern coast...