Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...site of this plant was decided after much consideration because of a desire to locate it outside of Paris, beyond what was considered the "Bombing Zone...
...California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei-U.S. citizens of Japanese blood. They were part of the first mass evacuation from the forbidden strip of West Coast land which Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt has made a military zone (TIME, March...
...business of running the submarine gamut was full of terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...
...files of Maryknoll Seminary are filled with such instances of heroism. No religious institution in America has so many of its alumni in the Japanese war zone. More than 450 nuns and priests from Maryknoll are in the Orient. Save for a few sick or on furlough, they have stuck at their posts through the years of mounting tension. Once assigned to a field, Roman Catholic missionaries generally stay there for the rest of their lives...
...scalp; Grace has a reputation for never losing a battle. The prize is domination of a great airline they started together, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra). The only important airline on the whole west coast of South America, Panagra flies over 8,000 route-miles from the Canal Zone to Santiago to Buenos Aires...