Word: zone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first line of defense, the Panama Canal Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers stepped up rearmament spending, made the U. S. hum with Preparedness...
...what about Egypt, neither dominion nor colony, nor full-fledged independency? Strategically crucial in Mediterranean naval plans (see p. 22), a sovereign power that recognizes Britain's special interest in the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt is legally no more than an ally of Britain. This week, Egypt demonstrated how an ally could act to give support...
Patients wounded near the Thames will be carried down the river on converted pleasure steamers to central zone hospitals. At zone hospitals desperate cases will receive immediate attention, but all those who can survive will be immediately examined and shipped for surgical treatment to base hospitals in safe districts some 20 miles out of London...
...battleships, now abuilding, which will be too big for the present locks, 2) provide an alternate route if one set of locks should be wrecked by enemy bombing planes. Meantime, the Army announced a plan to spend $53,000,000 on new defenses in the Canal Zone. For the Canal's second quarter-century may be as important in war as its first quarter-century was in commerce...
With his new instruments Dr. Millikan hopes to measure not only the amount of cosmic ray radiation in the equatorial zone, but also the main direction from which the rays are coming...