Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaston Henry-Haye was solemnly assuring the U.S. Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3½ in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma...
...figure of speech. One afternoon last month an anteater, a monkey and the editor of the News occupied the same office. This cozy spectacle did not confuse readers who dropped into the News office at Quarry Heights, the U.S. Army's headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone. Old friends of the editor, Master Sergeant Clay Doster, had no trouble whatever in identifying...
...House of Commons last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden appealed to the French people over the heads of Vichy, gave them the somewhat belated warning that if Vichy assisted in Germany's war, Britain-would feel free to attack the Unoccupied as well as the Occupied Zone. But it seemed likely that Frenchmen in general would have been disgusted, if not downright nauseated, by any large appeal, British or French...
...minimum by steamer). But the new 1,500-mile Manila-Singapore hop is not likely to be self-supporting for some time. In Manila everyone regards it as an extension of the U.S. diplomatic arm-right to the heart of Britain's Far Eastern trouble zone...