Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop outplayed the Funsters all through the encounter, and was scored on only when Ed Hindle, Kicker, forget that he backed up in using his rocker kick and stepped over the back of the end zone while punting...
Gruff old Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission, barked on the White House steps: "It's a nice idea, but what are you going to do if somebody sticks his nose inside the zone?" If the U. S. Navy, with what help its weak sisters to the South can give, actually throws a line of peace police around the Americas, can the 22 German merchantmen now holed up in Latin American ports return to coastwise trade-lanes, cruise without fear of British men-o'-war? What if British and German raiders meet...
Secretary Hull put the Declaration of Panama on a strictly if-as-and-when basis: if belligerent France, Great Britain or Germany decline to recognize the American Neutral Zone, the American Republics will "consult," and see what is to be done next...
...Archambault caught the eerie nature of this war of waiting: "A watcher in some trench may fire at what he imagines to be shadowy shapes crawling toward him. His shot proves contagious. Machine guns begin their battle, field guns lay down a barrage, howitzers begin pounding the rear zone to immobilize reinforcements. Fire answers fire, and the entire sector is ablaze...
...submarine-and first reports of the sinking of the Clement led the world to believe it had been attacked by a U-boat. Survivors told a different story. Bound with a cargo of gasoline from Pernambuco, Brazil, to Bahia, standing about 70 miles offshore (580 miles inside the neutral zone set up by the Panama Conference; TIME, Oct. 9), the Clement was plugging along at her weary ten-knot pace when members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot bursts of machine-gun fire into the air. Captain F. C. P. Harris stopped ship. A "warship...