Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canal Zone the voice on the bullhorn of the transport General Harry Taylor blared: "Now hear this! Watch the shadow of the ship." Then the Taylor's skipper, Captain Leonard B. Jaudon, added: "As it turns toward New York...
Three of the proposed big bases are prewar U.S. possessions: the Panama Canal Zone, the Hawaiian Islands, the Aleutians (probable base: Adak). The others: i) the entire Mariana group (Guam, Saipan, Tinian, 12 smaller islands) which taken together may be the U.S. Navy's postwar headquarters; 2) a Central Philippines base, probably on Leyte Gulf, which the Filipinos would undoubtedly grant...
...Russia's reluctance to quit northern Iran and her refusal to allow Iranian reinforcements to enter the Russian zone to quell rebellious tribesmen...
...names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, the communiqué by no means insured free access to the Russian-dominated zone. The Russians themselves, with a fundamentally different conception of the role of the press, had only a handful of Tass men in the Balkans. Nor could they understand why the U.S. and British governments had transmitted applications for scores of reporters to enter the area. U.S.-Russian understanding on a free press was still unfinished business...