Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a bee on a bear's nose, the Communist Party is a little group of 3,200.000 from all Russia's 164,000,000. Last week the bee smartly stung the bear, with the most ambitious Government decree in history. It divided all Russia into three Zones. Zone No. 1 includes all Russia's ticklish spots: the big cities, big industrial centres, a 62-mi. strip along the western border and the chief cities along the eastern border. In these, the hide and the vital organs of Russia, only certified loyalists may live. "Undesirable...
...penetratingly shrewd eye. On a swift tour of South America two years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short book (192 pp.) but a brightly written, informative one. In the Canal Zone, Traveler Siegfried was much impressed by the mechanics of the Gatun locks. "The silence is positively religious, giving an impression of safety, strength, and calm. It does honor to the Americans, and classes them with the Romans among the great builders of history." In Lima he found the people...
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone...
...Austria and Prussia ganged up on Denmark, bloodily took Schleswig away. For 50 years Schleswig and Holstein were both German. The Paris Peace Conference allowed Germany to keep Holstein and German Southern Schleswig. By the Versailles Treaty plebiscites were held in northern and central Schleswig. The Danish northern zone plumped for Denmark. To Denmark's rage & grief the central zone voted to stay German. Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border. Lately a new glitter has come into Prussian Nazi eyes. Last week Danes heard that Nazis planned an Easter visit...
...Jersey coast. Of her crew of seven, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins and two others were killed.) Down with the Akron evidently, had gone the 71; among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous...