Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, even before Pearl Harbor TIME started the world's first plane-delivered magazine (TIME Air Express for Latin America), thereby bringing our troops in the Canal Zone and all over the Caribbean many news-days closer to home. TIME was also the first American magazine to publish in Mexico City (to get the news faster to Mexico and Central America), in Bogotá (to get the news faster to Brazil and Uruguay), and in Buenos Aires (to get the news faster to the Argentine). And a few months ago TIME, with its Scandinavian Edition printed in Stockholm, became...
...base for 1,500 American Rangers and British Commandos." That there might be some truth in this enemy assertion was suggested when the Allies reported that specially trained U.S. and British combat troops-along with gunnery experts and engineers-are now operating with the Partisans in the Dalmatian coastal zone. Furthermore it was announced that the Allied troops had raided Solta Island, destroying Nazi installations, capturing 111 prisoners...
...worked on the insulin treatment for 15 years, has used it for 11,000 treatments without fatal effect. Lately he spent seven weeks in the Lower California Military Zone, just over the border from the U.S. While in Lower California Dr. Perez Garcia cured General Juan Felipe Rico's wife of gall bladder trouble, gave about 155 treatments on 40 cases, including a woman paralyzed with tertiary syphilis. After four treatments she walked...
...Marauders. Merrill's troops are no novices to jungles, where novices are often less than useful. All joined up after a Presidential call for volunteers "for a dangerous and hazardous mission." From the jungle training bases of Trinidad and the Canal Zone, from Guadalcanal and New Georgia came many a veteran Regular Army man itching for action. Some old-timers like Sergeant John Russell of Hammond, La., ex-Marine who wears the Navy Cross he won in Nicaragua. Others were the young, unmarried zealots who usually make fine soldiers...
Among Grandpappy's recent errands was a flight from an eastern Pacific base to the U.S. mainland, carrying 40 enlisted men home after many months on the unexciting, warless fringes of civilization. He has borne hundreds of girls from Miami to government jobs in the Canal Zone. Said a crew member: "The gals like him. They know they can trust Grandpappy...