Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II broadcasts from Berlin were prompted, she told the jury, by two basic precepts, neither the tiniest bit treasonable: 1) a woman must live, and 2) a woman must love...
...most of he,r life starving in a genteel way. During years of unsuccessfully "trying to do something worth while in the American theater" she said she sometimes lived on "apples and crackers" and once went without food for eight days. Finally, in 1940, she ended up broke in Berlin, hocked her "jewels" and went to work at a routine announcing job for the German radio...
...tons a day." Last week, airmen of the U.S. Air Force and Britain's R.A.F. set new airlift records and doubled the general's goal. On Washington's Birthday they landed one plane every 90 seconds, flew 7,513 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin. Next day, learning that the Russians were celebrating Red Army Day, airmen stepped up their load again, roared in with 7,897 tons. Two days later, with their holiday momentum still intact, they brought in 8,025 tons...
This was more than 80% of what Berlin's west sectors used to get by land before the Russians started their blockade; besides food and coal it included the other things that make a city hum: machinery and industrial raw materials. West Berliners now get 2,000 calories of food a day, 270 more than when Berlin was supplied by land...
...played when "the big guys"-Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin-used to come down on weekends to plug songs. In his "more salady" days, he had been the first Negro ever to compose the complete score for a major movie: Mae West's I'm No Angel (1933). Mae had made They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and I Want You, I Need You memorable to her fans, but they had never really been hits on their...