Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defensive Neutrality. The new policy was not successful either. In spite of frantic Argentinian efforts at three Pan American Congresses, "the continental security belt against Axis penetrations came into being." Because of this defeat the Argentinian "neutrality policy was declared . . . in order to show that Argentina could get along, alone and well, in spite of Washington." The Government's "international position . . . is supported by great numbers of Argentinians, especially in the hinterland. There is danger that the Argentinian generals will go to any extent in planning revolts [in neighboring countries...
American Advantages. His key notion was that human destiny centered in a world-girdling belt of the Northern Hemisphere which he called the Isothermal Zodiac (see cut). In this area lived 95% of the white race, and here, where climate and topography were most favorable, had flourished the greatest empires and highest civilizations...
Gilpin noted an important distinction between the North American and other sections of this belt. North America was a huge concave bowl, sloping into the central Mississippi Valley. This made communication easy, helped trade, brought people together, promoted harmony, made for a fundamental geographical unity. The result, he predicted, would be an immense growth in U.S. wealth, an eventual population of more than a billion...
...winner came from three months in Italy as an ammunition carrier with a heavy-weapons company. After the fight he was sent immediately to the Anzio beachhead. With him went the gold belt for the amateur heavyweight class...
...split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move on to a flame which explodes the shells. The nut meat drops neatly into a hopper...