Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pinch made many a nation withdraw its cooperation. Niggling legislatures reduced expense accounts. When at last the Polar Year got under way it had become a Terrestrial Year. Instead of ringing only the North Pole with observatories, the massed nations have sent some men to the Antarctic Zone, some to tropic regions. Africa and South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney Island off South America and Kraulshaferi, Greenland, between Hooker Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, whose spring icepack was a U. S. cinema villain last week...
...Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, 8-6. This unexpected victory?one more in the record of a team that had astounded tennis critics by beating England in the European zone finals?gave an unexpected importance to Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr.'s first singles match, against Dr. Daniel Prenn of Berlin...
...German Davis Cup team (Daniel Prenn, Gottfried von Cramm, G. Jaenecke): the European zone final, for the right to play the U. S.; 5 matches to 0, against Italy; at Milan...
...German Davis Cup team (Daniel Prenn, Gottfried von Cramm, Walter Dessart): European zone semi-finals against England; 3 matches to 2; at Berlin...
Madden Dam in the Panama Canal Zone...