Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr. Canal Zone flight from which the Akron had last month returned. Only distinction was the presence aboard of seven guest officers, most notably Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, hard-bitten champion of the Navy lighter-than-air program. He it was who fought and won the airship...
Furthermore, my Navy Cross was not awarded for engaging a submarine in the vicinity of the Azores. The citation read: -Distinguished service in line of profession as Aide to Commander Azores Detachment, also as commanding officer of a destroyer engaged on patrol in the War Zone...
Norman Armour and Paul Knabenshue, career diplomats, were reappointed to Haiti and Iraq, respectively. Lieut.-Colonel Julian L. Schley, whose nomination by President Hoover had been held up along with those of all other Hoover nominees, was continued in nomination to be Governor of the Panama Canal Zone...
...discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...
Basic also are three recommendations which the Report asks the assembly to adopt: 1) "the Assembly recommends the evacuation of [Japanese] troops" who should withdraw into the only part of Manchuria in which they have treaty rights to be, namely, the narrow South Manchuria Railway Zone running down to Dairen & Port Arthur in Japan's Kwantung Leased Territory; 2) "the Assembly recommends the establishment in Manchuria ... of an organization under the sovereignty ... of China" but with "a wide measure of autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created...