Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department has not even begun to work out a blueprint on which it can ask Congress for the necessary authority to commit U.S. resources. The only U.S. resources now available are a few hundred millions in the War Department appropriation to provide relief in the U.S. zone this year...
Communists worked overtime to raise chaos last week in Korea's southern zone. Purpose: to prevent U.S. military authorities from carrying out plans for the popular election of a Korean legislative body and the organization of a national administration...
Railroad workers struck first, tying up every railway in the zone. They demanded 100% wage increases and "labor reforms" along lines said to be in effect in Russia's zone. Next the Communists threatened a strike of all public utilities, including power plants. Knowing that southern Korea has no rice reserves, they demanded that the U.S. authorities release "hoarded stores" for distribution among workers. They also spread rumors that the U.S. authorities had confiscated all rice for shipment to Japan...
...period ended with Harvard again deep in Tufts territory, but the Crimson attack stopped at the Tufts' 1 yard-line when Farrell fumbled and the visitors recovered. The Jumbos then foolishly elected to try a deep reverse, and right end Al Fuller dropped the Tufts tailback in the end zone for a safety...
...Crimson came rolling on after another ineffectual Tufts series of plays, out the attack again stalled on the Jumbo 1. Another attempted Tufts reverse wound up with guard Bill Byrnes pinning a Medford back in the end zone, and the half ended with Harvard in front...