Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson opened the game with a zone defense that battled the Lion sharp-shooters for a time, but by halftime the New Yorkers had a 15 to 13 lead. Columbia forged to a 10 point lead early in the second period before the visitors shifted...
...longer did the German press with hold comment on the deterioration of U. S.-German relations. While Adolf Hitler threatened to sink any U. S. ship coming into the war zone (see p. 21) the press told the people frankly that U. S. sympathy and aid to Great Britain were an actuality. With this news there was cunningly coupled the charge that U. S. aid was designed to lead Britain to her ruin, to the end that the U. S. might inherit the British Empire...
...Militant Aid to Britain Committee believes that the bill is essential in view of a prospective shipping crisis in which they feel that "the President should have the power to send American ships into the war zone, if necessary with conveys." Fears that the Democratic system would be jeopardized if the chief executive were granted the wide powers included in the bill were scoffed at by the Committee...
...impotent, are located strategically near the Panama Canal, 3) the jungles of eastern Ecuador, from which she could easily connect with Lufthansa-owned Condor's penetration line in western Brazil. Her Junkers JU52s (used as troop transports in Belgium, The Netherlands) could fly from Ecuador to the Canal Zone in four hours or less...
Lewis Don Leet, crack Harvard seismologist, does not want to be an alarmist -but he does his duty when he sees it. In the closing days of 1940, two earthquakes shook solid old New England, which is far outside the zone of major quakes (TIME, Jan. 6). Property damage was small and casualties practically nil; in Peru, Japan or California, the shocks would have been dismissed as trivial. Last week Dr. Leet said they might augur worse shocks to come...