Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darlan, 29, son of the late French Admiral, turned up at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital-almost certainly by the kindness of Franklin Roosevelt. With him were his mother, his pretty blonde wife Annie, a French physician, and a French orderly. Flown out of the Algiers danger zone last December, Darlan arrived in the U.S. by ship three weeks...
...important eastbound convoys were the prey of submarine wolf packs, ranging the Atlantic between the U.S. and Eng land. In midocean, beyond the zone of air protection from Britain, the convoys suffered (losses: unannounced). When the battle moved within range of the four-motored Liberators and Sunderlands of Britain's Coastal Command, the Nazi wolves paid: five were probably sunk, many others were damaged...
London's Daily Telegraph reported: the Franco Government has notified U.S. Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes that it must have more aviation gasoline. If the U.S. failed to deliver, Spain would not permit Portuguese planes to use Tangier, the onetime North African international zone, which Spanish troops occupied in 1940. Thus the only daily mail service linking London, Lisbon, Tangier and other African points would be severed...
...advices also said that Italians were protecting Jews in their zone an many Jews were fleeing German-occupied France to Italian held territory...
...Twilight Zone. A decade ago the organization of foremen would have been unthinkable. Yet with the rapid rise of unionism, the oldtime position of the foreman has quietly been revolutionized. Much of his oldtime authority has been whittled away by union shop stewards. His pay (in Detroit between $4,000 and $6,000) has not gone up as fast as that of the workers. Says Keys: "The production guys have a union. The fellows at the top look out for themselves. No one looks out for the foremen. We are strictly in the middle...