Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania. Grey-green troops pouring down the Danube and over a dozen land routes rapidly brought the southward-moving Nazi "army of occupation" towards its announced strength of ten divisions (about 150,000). Three hundred tanks had arrived in the frontier zone opposite Soviet Bessarabia, and at Galati near the mouth of the Danube German naval experts were reported supervising the construction of a submarine base for underwater craft to be shipped from the Reich in sections.* To accommodate the Nazi influx, 120 trains were removed from passenger service on Rumanian railroad lines...
...Panama Hattie is easily the ripest of the crop, may well become the musical hit of Broadway's winter if lighthearted depravity pays Mr. Porter anywhere near as well as it has in the past. The scene of the latest of his many successes is a canvas Canal Zone where morals are so loose as to be virtually detached...
...baiting, watched his support pile up. His party had already answered the Fascist charges, promised that Panama "will not commit the folly of experimenting with Fascist, Nazi or Communist doctrines." Discouraged, muttering threats to seek power by force when "legal means" had failed, Alfaro scooted for the Canal Zone two days before the elections. Last June the National Electoral Jury announced the results: Arias, 107,759; Alfaro...
...four-motored Boeing bomber. Since the first B-17 was delivered to the Air Corps in 1937, the Flying Fortresses have served the Army with the plodding but spectacular fidelity of a string of prize Percherons. Manned by veteran pilots, B-17s have made countless jumps to the Canal Zone and South America, have ranged far out to sea, made long, heavily loaded hops. None has crashed...
...Ornithological Club will hold its first meeting of the year this evening in Lowell House Tower Room, and not in the Common Room as was previously announced. Wendell Taber will speak on "The Canadian Zone Birds of New England...