Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Need Latitude. Dean Acheson slipped off his spectacles, was ready for questions. They came fast from all sides. Would an attack on a Berlin airlift plane flying over the Soviet zone be considered an armed attack under the treaty? Acheson replied calmly that he thought that would be an attack on the occupation forces. "But if it occurs over the Soviet zone?" the reporter pressed. Acheson said it made no difference...
...Besieged Berlin had weathered the winter. The West this week marked the victory and the season by moving to clean up the Berlin currency mess...
...retrospective show contained a pitifully small sampling of Marcks's early work. The Nazis had melted some of it down for shell-case metal. More had been destroyed when an Allied bomb wiped out his Berlin studio in 1944, and still more when Russian troops arrived in the Mecklenburg town where he had begun some, new work. The Russians smashed the new work, as if Marcks had been Hitler's pampered...
...League of New York Theaters to outlaw her club because, they argued, she was violating the ticket code's ban on large purchases of seats in advance of a show's opening. The same code also bans trafficking in tickets as if they were chocolate bars in Berlin-but no one seemed much concerned about that...
That meant that the remaining 32 Tudors were grounded except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...