Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish strip would include some of the country's richest agricultural land in the valleys of Sharon and Esdraelon, and the coastal plain to which their forefathers aspired from Moses' time down to 100 B.C. (they lost control of it to the Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...
...under the fiendish McRompers law, the U.S. had had enough. Washington went wild over repeal and the joyous headline: "Government officials no longer to be selected on basis of brains and integrity." Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), who had dreamed up the episode in his Sunday comic strip, turned his fertile mind to other things...
...Quonset huts and many of the more substantial installations have been pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...
Overhead was the roar of planes. But all eyes, mostly red from lack of sleep, were focused on a glistening B-29 Super-fort, Dave's Dream,* which stood apart at the south side of the strip...
...Navy had given up altogether on six other islands: Johnston, Wake, Marcus, Iwo, Palmyra and Canton. Iwo, with its 9,800-ft. B-29 strip, would be taken over by the Army; Marcus would have a tiny weather station detachment...