Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pared down on three sides by territorial slicings of Germany. Hungary and Poland after the Munich Deal, what is left of Czechoslovakia was last week split in two. Germany demanded and got a corridor 40 miles long, 197 feet wide through the slim middle of the whittled little nation. Along this strip Adolf Hitler will build one of his Autobahnen, which will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed...
...Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under Sir John Woodhead to restudy the partition proposals...
Arriving at the GM Building about nine, Weaver lopes down the long corridor with a mess of manila folders under his arm, a cigaret stub in his nervous mouth. To preserve his more-or-less professorial role in a high-pressure company, he dresses with studied informality-slouch hat, tweedy, sloppy suit. He is short, bowlegged, has Clark Gable ears and hair cropped short because it tends to be kinky...
...Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Peru and Chile, in which Bolivia had hoped for a corridor, gave Bolivia nothing...
Since that time the land named for Simon Bolivar has adopted a Drang nach Osten (Drive toward the East) policy of her own, with only tough little Paraguay to oppose her in obtaining a water route to the Atlantic. Now Bolivia will have a small corridor between the Brazilian border and the new Paraguayan border (see map) to the Paraguay River, where she can build a port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into...