Word: flatlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirty, malodorous flatlands of East Akron, where rubber workers live amid a pervading stench from the vats, there is widespread conviction that unionists who first perfected the U. S. sit-down technique cannot get much without fighting for it. On the heights of West Akron, where rubber executives live amid a stench diminished but not conquered by distance and altitude, there is an equally firm conviction that the flatland hordes will some day swarm up the hills, looting and shooting as they come. Last week Akron had a taste of trouble...
...dribbles placidly through the Santa Ana Mountains, 35 miles southeast of the city, across 20 miles of farming country to the sea just south of Long Beach. Last week the Santa Ana burst a dam at Fairmont Lake, roared five feet deep through the streets of Riverside. On the flatland it became a muddy torrent whose waters spread out ten miles wide, turning orchards, farms and villages into a churning sea in which 15 people drowned...