Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forts, southwest of Oslo, Norse garrisons fought bitterly. Elsewhere the Nazi juggernaut rolled comfortably from town to town, in its own lorries and commandeered busses. With the occupation of Sarpsborg and Halden it reached the lower Swedish border and threatened Sweden's flank behind her main southern defense zone...
...Norwegian spokesman, who said his information came from a courier who reached the Swedish border from the Narvik zone, said the Norwegians set fire to the hotel and all other large buildings in Gratangen, leaving the town ablaze...
...Added seven major ports to the European sea zone from which U. S. shipping and travelers are banned. U. S. vessels must now stay out of all Scandinavian waters up to the Arctic Circle, may go nowhere in Europe excepting Spain and Portugal on the Atlantic, a few neutral ports in the Mediterranean...
Their hold on the mountain ridge down to Halden would enable them to flank Sweden's southern defense zone, which runs southeast through her big lakes, Vaner and Vatter. With their command of the air, their superior arms (automatic rifles against old 6.5-mm. Kraag-Jörgensens, for which the Norse can get more ammunition only from Sweden or the U. S. ), they should be able soon to take southern Norway. Unless King Haakon would order nonresistance, the Nazis promised "martial law," the Gestapo, the death penalty, confiscation, destruction, starvation, the whole bag of tricks displayed in Poland...
...freighters Mormacsea at Trondheim and Flying Fish at Bergen, caught in the middle of the shooting, went welcome news; the U. S. State Department had notified belligerents it expected U. S. ships to get safe passage out of the newest segment of the President's combat zone. This week anxious Moore-McCormack heard that Mormacsea had shoved off from Trondheim with her U. S. flag flying...