Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition can truthfully argue--as it does--that the CVA would be "state socialism." But the charge of "socialism" alone doesn't frighten so many people in 1949 as it did in 1933, when the first Valley project was getting under way. The question is whether the Northwest needs this form of government aid or not. And when the plush opponents of CVA claim that the Northwest is doing fine as it is, they are unfortunately in error...
...Pacific Northwest's earthquake which killed eight and hospitalized more than 60 on Wednesday, occurred in an entirely new area for quakes, L. Don Leet '29, director of the University Seismograph Station, said yesterday...
Although it is too soon after the event to tell exactly what "happened to the Northwest," Leet pointed out that 99 percent of all earthquakes are caused by faults similar to the one which was responsible for the San Francisco tremor. But he expects that local geologists "will be running all over the place with hammers within the next few days attempting to find the explanation...
President Truman called on Cogress yesterday to create a Columbia Valley Administration to help develop and conserve the vast natural resources of the Pacific Northwest...
...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...