Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the Rightists had shipped 40,000 troops from the Teruel area to the Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held Rightist lines in the Universales Mountains. He drove down the Guadalaviar River valley for six miles, to within nine miles of Albarracin, which commands a broad, unfortified plateau leading to Teruel, only 19 miles away...
...Levy, went on record with the statement that the turbulent conditions in Palestine had convinced the British that two far-reaching changes must be made in the partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here believe that the Arabs are not yet fit for self-government and that therefore all Palestine outside the proposed Jewish...
...Seek shelter in a cave, depression in the ground, deep valley, foot of a steep cliff, grove of trees...
...none of his vision. Under the terms of the Central Pacific's Government grant, the company got loans of from $16,000 to $48,000 per mile, depending on the nature of the territory through which the road passed. While it was still being built through the Sacramento Valley, Judah was asked by his partners to testify that it was in the foothills, so that the company would receive $16,000 more for each mile of track. Unwilling to be a party to this miracle of moving mountains, Judah resigned, died soon after. This left the task of building...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...