Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months, the balloon, billowing up in the Teruel-to-the-Mediterranean front, has been in Leftist hands. Last week, unable to stand up under the downpour of shells, bald-domed General Jose Miaja, commander-in-chief on the Leftists' southern front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists...
...Franklin Roosevelt's "conviction that the South presents right now the nation's No. 1 economic problem-the nation's problem, not merely the South's." It is the conviction of eight Southern Governors that the chief barrier to the South's economic improvement is a system of freight-rate disparities which favor the North. Last week, before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex...
...across the U. S. during the last century, they engaged in a series of costly freight-rate wars. There was no Interstate Commerce Commission to settle the wrangle, so the roads set up three territories and arranged rate schedules in each. Western territory was everywhere west of the Mississippi; Southern, everywhere east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers; Official, everywhere east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac. In each territory the rates were fixed on the time-honored basis of traffic density. As an agricultural area the Southern territory had less...
Then industrialization began to snowball in the South. In 1914, eight leading Southern cities had an estimated industrial production of $418,017,000; last year this figure had more than tripled under the influx of such industries as textiles and wood pulp, moving from the North to the South to take advantage of lower costs and nearness to raw materials...
...Alabama, the Conference (minus Kentucky, which withdrew because it suffers least from the disparities by its location, has a competitive advantage over the "deep South") visited President Roosevelt, carried on an extensive advertising campaign, developed a mass of data which they laid before ICC at Birmingham to prove that Southern industries suffer from the disparities in rates. At the Buffalo hearings, which began fortnight ago, Bibb Graves was on hand to publicize the South's position but not to testify. That privilege was reserved for the North, and Governor Herbert Lehman of New York promptly took advantage...