Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, Director Darling divided the country into two seasonal zones instead of three. In the Northern Zone, the season will be Oct. 21 to Nov. 19 inclusive. Southern Zone...
...late the Panama American's stormy crusading publisher, Nelson Rounsevell, has been enraging U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
...remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They may suffer like gentlefolk from post-Civil War melancholy but never from prickly heat...
...question of how much the U. S. owes foreign nations to whom it has promised 100? gold dollars. This question has been a hot issue with the Republic of Panama to which the U. S. promised to pay 250,000 100? dollars per year as rent for the Canal Zone. In 1934 and again last February Panama indignantly rejected checks for 250,000 59? dollars. Last week, on the same day that the President sent his message to Congress, it was unofficially made known in Washington that the State Department had decided to honor the pledge...
...could make the U. S. President comfortable when he came to dine. But until last week all Dr. Arias had got from his fellow ruler was 1) an offer of 59? dollars for Canal rent; 2) a Roosevelt order permitting the sale of liquor in the U. S. Canal Zone which thus deprived Dr. Arias' constituents of a profitable business...