Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zones were agreed upon in principle at Yalta, but the precise boundaries had not been revealed, and in one instance (the French zone) there was some doubt as to whether they had been determined...
...Germans admitted that such a linking of the Allies could take place any day; they prepared for it by setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command...
...Final Phase. The linking of the Allies will eliminate the eastern and western fronts, and usher in the final phase of the battle of Germany: the destruction of the German pockets. These would include the north German zone and Baltic coastal pockets; the Denmark-Norway pocket; five French ports and the Channel Islands; the Latvian pocket; Bohemia; a group of islands in the eastern Mediterranean; northern Italy, which is in fact a forefield of the great Alpine bastion; and finally the bastion itself...
Then he did some sharpshooting at Pan Am's own operations. Competition, said he, is better than monopoly because it is cheaper. Item: operating costs on Pan Am's western division, which flies from Brownsville, Tex. to Mexico City, the Canal Zone and Trinidad, were $1.75 per revenue mile in 1940. Operating costs for American Airlines, on its routes from El Paso and Dallas to Mexico City, were 83.9? a revenue mile in 1943, when all airline costs were admittedly higher...
There would be logic aplenty for such dealings. Eastern expects to operate a postwar route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone, northern terminus of Panagra, which operates down the Andean-wrinkled west coast of South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...