Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason to expect they would be. Orders from the Allies had set U.S. aircraft factories humming; designers, encouraged by the Army, & Navy, were ready with new engines and aircraft; U.S. industry was ready. And oldtime believers in air power, such as Frank Andrews (commander of the Canal Zone), Delos Emmons (of Hawaii) and Hap Arnold, held the top Air Force commands...
...shores of the Japan Sea and the Mandated Islands, to Russia a Manchurian warm-water outlet and Outer Mongolia, to China a piece of Indo-China, to Thailand all the rest of Indo-China and a piece of Burma. All the Indies are lumped into an International Zone. India is arbitrarily divided into a Moslem state (west) and a Hindu state (east...
...Coral Sea, the Army bombed the Jap Fleet for three days without knowing, till Army pilots found the Navy in action, that the Navy was coming in too. Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone (TIME, June 1). The minds of generals and admirals, although much improved by six months' education in real war, had still much to learn about mutual cooperation...
...Zone of Quiet...
...Army says only that gas masks have been supplied to every soldier sent into a potential combat zone. Gas warfare is humane, say the military theorists. As proof, they cite the fact that in World War I gas caused less suffering from wounds than other weapons. Of the 1,300,000 men gassed, only 90,000 were fatalities, and complete recoveries predominated. (Of the 28,000,000 men wounded by other weapons, 8,200,000 died.) And gas is quick and effective, they argue. War's objective is to immobilize the enemy and make him sue for peace. What...