Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theodore Christian Schneirla of the New York Museum of Natural History has one absorbing interest in life. An animal psychologist of renown, he would rather study the army ant than any insect he knows. Last week he was back in Manhattan from the Canal Zone with new lore about the most predatory of ants and its life in a society of fierce complexity...
...King David Hotel, as TIME neglects to mention, was not an ordinary hotel, but the headquarters of the British Army and Administration in Palestine-whose policies and methods have driven the Jews (who were England's staunchest ally in the Middle Eastern War Zone) to just such acts of desperation...
...Russian state and 49% by Germans), the enterprise has an official capital of over eight billion marks ($800,000,000). Its real value is estimated at twice that sum. It employs nearly 400,000 workers and embraces the choicest 30% of all German industry in the Soviet zone, including I.G. Farben. Russian reparation seizures and forced nationalization already took care of other large chunks. Economic pharaoh of this pyramid of 13 trusts was one Alexei Resnikov...
Linda Christian, who makes Hollywood's pretty side prettier (see cut), got a look at the seamy side. A judge gave her five days in jail for doing 58 in a 25 m.p.h. zone. On her second day of confinement (in the company of some 40 ladies of the evening) she sent word to the outside world. Reported lovely Linda: "The place stinks...
...often calls on the Maryknollers as its shock troops (the latest field: Africa, opened this year and already invaded by four Maryknoll priests). Asia, and particularly China, where the men of Maryknoll have preached, doctored and taught, has been their No. 1 field. There, deep in the Japanese war zone, Maryknoll missionaries stuck to their posts, filled the files of their order (only 35 years old last April) with accounts of adventure and heroism. Many wound up in Japanese prison camps...