Word: autobahns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mainly of the 6th Infantry Regiment, and the British and French account for the rest of an Allied garrison of about 11,000 troops. To supply them, the U.S. runs two to three convoys per week-three to ten trucks in each convoy-over the 110-mile, four-lane Autobahn between the border check point of Helmstedt, and Berlin (see map). The British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over...
...through the roadblocks with U.S. tanks. No such plan gets serious consideration in the Pentagon. Reason: an armored column or train would be not only a diplomatic fiasco -in that the U.S. would seem to make the first warlike move-but a military absurdity as well. The four-lane Autobahn snakes along over no fewer than 29 vulnerable bridges, among them the quartermile span over the Elbe River, still only half replaced since its total destruction by Allied bombers in World War II; the railroad has 49 bridges. Destruction of a single bridge or a short stretch of rail...
...happy to advise you that your request to see your countrymen has been granted." Then, disconcertingly, in walked eight other journalists, representatives of various Communist newspapers in East Germany and Western Europe. Topping was the only American present. Bundled into four limousines, the party whisked over the Autobahn south of Berlin, while the Communist hosts shrugged off questions on their destination...
...first time since the 1948 Soviet blockade, the Communists this week shut off German traffic on the Autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. Armed Red police forbade anyone to leave East Berlin and searched anyone trying to enter it. With his state thus sealed off, East German Premier Grotewohl went on the air at 8 a.m. Sunday to jolt his people out of bed. Grotewohl gave East Germans just 14 hours to hand in all their currency. Sleepy-eyed, they rushed to special conversion centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed...
Bound for Stuttgart airport on a fog-shrouded Autobahn, a bus carrying Germany's Pianist Walter Gieseking, 60, crashed into a bridge abutment at 70 m.p.h., brought death to two of its 18 passengers. One of the dead: Gieseking's wife Anna Maria, 66. Famed Musician Gieseking, removed from Allied blacklists in 1946 after his eleven years as an unreluctant performer under Hitler, sustained "serious" head injuries but no hurt to the hands that have made him famous...