Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First to approach the priorities zone was the steel industry. One day last week U. S. Steel's new chairman, Irving S. Olds, said that industry must be left alone. Next day he conceded that pressure might become so strong that priorities would have to be exercised. While huge U. S. Steel strained to get up from 96% of theoretical capacity to 100%, spryer, smaller Bethlehem Steel actually had to refuse some commercial orders in order to rush steel to the Navy. Many a specialty producer's unfilled orders continued to pile up. One such was little Crucible...
America lives today in a twilight zone that is neither peace nor war, and the light is fading fast. Though the words still pass current, yesterday's sharp distinctions between "peace and war," "neutrality and belligerency," "interventionist and isolationist" no longer hold any meaning. While the recognition of this fact eliminates the old clear-cut opposites as a framework for debate, it opens up a host of new and subtler choices, centering about the nature and extent of our participation...
...states of the United States are represented among the new men, excepting Nevada, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The students also come from England, France, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone, Bermuda, and Hawaii...
...London last week, after the ship had safely left the danger zone. Newscaster Vladimir Poliakoff ("Augur") offered an explanation: Washington was neatly thwarting a Nazi kidnap attempt. His story...
...resolution urging the Inter-American Neutrality Committee, which sits at Rio de Janeiro, to draft a convention to enforce the 300-mile maritime security zone...