Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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summoned the Egyptian ambassador to express U.S. shock at "the many intemperate, inaccurate and misleading statements" made by Nasser "during the past few days." Rejecting hotheaded talk that British troops should reoccupy the Canal Zone, the Eden government froze an estimated $1 billion of Egyptian assets (including the Canal Company's) in Great Britain. Defense secretaries took stock of aircraft carriers, destroyers and airborne troops available if needed. Alternate ways to avoid patronizing the Suez Canal were canvassed. The French talked of an old plan to dig a canal from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel...
...areas of arid Algeria have prospered more under French rule than the heavily populated coastal zone called the Kabylia, which lies between the cities of Algiers and Philippeville. Six months ago, however, France lost control of the Kabylia to bands of Algerian rebels, who took over the towns and even collected their own taxes...
Phillips knew what it was doing. With plenty of cash McGee soon had a string of wells in the rich-paying Gulf Coast zone in Louisiana. Then Kerr-McGee started operating on its own in an area where few oilmen had yet ventured: the Louisiana tidelands. Says McGee: "It looked better to us than staying on land, where the first-class spots were already leased and drilled. Some said it took courage. Others just said we were foolish...
...Roman Catholic Church in Berlin has published statistics showing that Communist antireligious propaganda is paying off in Germany's East zone. Candidates for the priesthood number only 33%-about half the normal expectation. Church membership "leakage" increased from 3,733 in 1948 to almost 10,000 last year...
...state at the 48th U.S. Governors' Conference at Atlantic City, N.J. a set of baseballs autographed by members of all three of New York's major-league teams.* It was a nice pitch, but, like most of Harriman's Atlantic City efforts, it missed the strike zone. The upshot: at the end of the seventh inning of the big Democratic delegate contest, Harriman still trailed Front Runner Adlai Stevenson, 3-1. Nothing Harriman tried at the conference quite seemed to work. When he tried to switch-hit on the civil-rights issue ("I know and understand...