Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind them were A.M.G.'s experiences in Italy (since September 1943), and M.G.'s work in Aachen and other smaller German cities in the U.S. occupation zone...
...likes easy money, uneasily decides to pick up $10,000 of it by selling the Japanese his country's plans for the defense of the Panama Canal. Then he lets G-2 know about it. One G-2 agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other complications wind through a labyrinth of hidden dictaphones, hideous tortures, sinister slant eyes, vicious voices...
...oldtime Army man, neither smokes nor drinks. As a survivor of the bloody, gallant, but unsuccessful 1922 revolt, he is a legendary figure in Brazil. He helped to put Vargas in power in the successful revolution of 1930. Later, Vargas appointed him commander of Brazil's Second Air Zone. Impeccably honest and inherently democratic, Air Chief Gomes later criticized the Vargas regime, was subsequently relieved of his field command, assigned to a Rio desk job. His candidacy is supported by most of Brazil's political "outs," the majority of the newspapers, 90% of the intelligentsia...
Ford laid the foundation for his record-snapping stroke in Balboa, Canal Zone, improved it at Mercersburg Academy. When he entered Yale three years ago, he was ready for squatty Bob Kiphuth's swimming course for advanced students. A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity...
Germany. Stalin gave his strongest support yet to the Roosevelt policy of unconditional surrender. More important, the occupation and control of defeated Germany is to be an Allied, cooperative job: "The forces of the three powers will each occupy a separate zone. ... A central control commission consisting of the supreme commanders of the three powers [will have] headquarters in Berlin." France will be invited to take a fourth zone (presumably the Ruhr and the Rhine's west bank), a fourth place on the control commission...