Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...
Atop this, the U.S. is using South American airlines more than ever. Most of this new flying is war business. Thus for months all planes headed from Miami and Brownsville to the Canal Zone have been so jam-packed with U.S. diplomats, soldiers, construction workers and South American priority traffic that many plain citizens and tons of cargo have been left behind. In Peru the natives gripe at the coolness of some U.S. airmen, get peeved because U.S. operators do not dish out free rides as the Nazis did, get mad when families of Latin American officials are pushed...
...operators are doing all they can to prevent such beefs. Last week Panagra started a new all-cargo service between Lima and the Canal Zone, set up a new trans-Andean schedule between Antofagasta and Salta to boot...
...Edward G. Robinson, Jane Cowl, Bob Burns, Jack Pearl, Red Skelton, Fanny Brice, Amos 'n' Andy and other comedians and actors snarl at the Axis, repeat the tales of U.S. heroes, past & present. Some heroes spoke for themselves, by short wave, from England, Hawaii, the Canal Zone...
...threatened point in the Brest-St.-Malo-Cherbourg sector. Another is stationed near Amiens, has the Havre-Dieppe-Boulogne line to back up (last week it dashed to Dieppe to meet the Canadians). The third is reported to be quartered at Ghent, covers the Calais-Ostend-Flushing zone...