Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring, University authorities realized that unrestricted flying within the coastal area would be stopped, but they chose to gamble and carried out their spring program. Had they carried on their program for civilian training for the summer, however, they would have been compelled to move outside of the restricted zone to complete the course...
What Leicester Hemingway, adventurous younger brother of Author Ernest Hemingway, discovered and warned the U.S. about in a Reader's Digest article back in 1940 made news last week. The Army's Caribbean Defense Command arrested 19 Panama Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases...
Snorted an Army officer: "Alaska is a combat zone. Don't you know there's a war going on?" Answered the publisher: " "I do. But my readers will forget it if you won't let me tell them about...
...TIME, June 8 you say, in part: "The winning of the war has not begun and . . . its losing has gone on apace. . . . Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone...
Meanwhile Germany had taken a new step to save her from embarrassment of Argentine protests over future ship sinkings on the U.S. east coast. She proclaimed that she had extended her submarine zone of operations to cover the whole U.S. Atlantic Coast, flatly warning, "Every ship which enters this zone after June 26, 1942 will expose itself to destruction...