Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demanding all of their pay in West marks because most of them live and work in the Western sectors. The Russians, who control the entire city rail transit system, have offered 60% of the workers' pay in West marks. Last week Ernst Reuter, Socialist Mayor of (West) Berlin, appeared at a strike meeting and offered to add 15% from city funds to the Russian offer. He told the strikers that the U.S., British and French commandants wanted them to accept the settlement. "I would not recommend that you accept this agreement, unless I had to," said Reuter. The strikers...
...majority of Berliners still supported the strike, but some were beginning to express impatience at crowded buses and long walks from home to work. More were beginning to fear that unless the strike ended, Berlin would not build up a stockpile of fuel for the winter...
...shifting the scenery in amusing dance patterns while the play went on. No voices were outstanding, but Haydn's rollicking ensembles and the well-rehearsed way the Lemonaders sang them were the hit of the show. Next biggest hit: the eminently singable, notably contemporary English libretto of onetime Berlin Music Critic John Gutman, who now has a job in Manhattan's Wall Street. Sample, from a quintet pondering the advisability of admitting the miserly father to the "harmonious" life on the moon...
...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...
...Split. The Communists responded with a radio whoosh of sound & fury to which Berliners have long since become accustomed. Stormed the Red-controlled Berlin Radio: "Clerical quarters" had reported that "a man with such an unsteady character as Bishop Dibelius can no longer remain the head of the [Evangelical] Church...