Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...annuity paid by the U. S. to Panama for the use and occupation of the Canal Zone, plus the liquor and stamp taxes of Panama were pledged, last week, as security for a $12,000,000 loan at 5% made to the Government of President Rodolfo Chiari by the National City Co. of Manhattan...
Your correspondent was probably thinking of bombardments which often take place of the weekly "souks" or markets of the tribes of the Oued el Abid, the only remaining zone inhabited by hostile Berbers north of the Atlas, at present surrounded on three sides by our military posts. This is a long, mountainous valley between the Middle and the High Atlas ranges and some two hundred and fifty miles southwest of the Riff...
...awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided for a lowering of postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much for placing orders as for "dropping a line," the rate was cut in half, back to one cent. Also, mail-order men would acquire the privilege of issuing C. O. D. return mail-cards...
Since 1925 Colonel Morrow has been quietly presiding over his commission, having previously been Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. A close lipped Army career man, he would neither affirm nor deny, last week, reports that his commission is on the point of submitting its completed findings to President Coolidge, who acts, by request of Chile & Peru, as a gingerly umpire of the dispute...