Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evacuated to the mountain resort of Baguio" (which the Japs took five days later); five Catholics seized near Hong Kong were escorted by the Japanese to nearby Portuguese Macao and released; 16 missionaries headed by Methodist Bishop Ralph A. Ward reached Free China safely after fleeing from the occupied zone; one famed missionary, President J. Leighton Stuart of Yenching University, near Peking, was put into "honorable confinement...
...Crosley station near Cincinnati; by WBOS, the Westinghouse station near Boston; by WGEO, General Electric station in Schenectady. The British Broadcasting Corporation picked it up and rebroadcast it by short wave to all the outposts of the Empire. In Singapore it was rebroadcast on long wave to the fighting zone of the Far East...
...raised lumps on his skull butting against conservative prejudices and tightwad spending policies. He played a big part in developing the uncanny directors that put modern anti-aircraft guns on their targets. In 1939 he took over the command of the Panama Coast Artillery, established in the Canal Zone jungles the best U.S. anti-aircraft system in existence...
Interceptors were confined to one zone, anti-aircraft batteries to the other. But pilots on the tail of a bomber will not let go, zone or no zone. With anti-aircraft enormously improved in accuracy, ground batteries today can plug enemies even while their interceptors are closing...
Panama Hattie (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). Ethel Merman's voice and personality pep up the Canal Zone...