Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, after many warnings, Malcolm MacDonald finally announced his and the Government's decision to stake out Palestine into: 1) a prohibited zone, where Jews could no longer buy land; - For a similar example of self-denial...
...hand at combining business & pleasure, the President had taken time on his trip to scrutinize the Panama Canal Zone defenses minutely. He came back renewing his demand that Congress at once appropriate $15,000,000, authorize $99,300,000 for a third set of Canal locks-ultimately to cost $277,000,000. (Both appropriation & authorization were promptly turned down by the House.) He also wanted the number (secret) of airplanes & anti-aircraft guns in the Zone doubled...
...southern districts of Beersheba and Gaza. This is more than half the country. Furthermore, Jews will be allowed land purchases only "by special permission" in other large restricted areas around Haifa, Lake Tiberias and Ramleh. Jews can still buy land in municipal areas, in the Haifa industrial zone and in a 50-mile stretch of the Maritime Plain between Tantura and Ramleh, practically all owned by them already...
Again the Crimson will be faced with the problem of breaking through the Yale zone defense, one of the best of its kind in the country. It is this potent factor which has given the Elis, otherwise an in and out ball team, victories over such teams as Fordham, Tulsa, Brown, and Princeton...
However this time the Feslermen will know exactly what they are facing and that fact will be an aid in planning both the offense and the defense. It wasn't until the second half last Saturday that they discovered the remedy for fast breaking attack in a modified zone defense which proved quite effective, and tonight they will not have to experiment for a whole period...