Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unstable Grasshopper. Philip Jessup, a sharp-nosed, curly-haired American, spoke quietly and earnestly, giving the Council the most logical, balanced and damning indictment yet made of Russia's actions in Berlin. Said he: "The acts of the Soviet Government . . . create a threat to the peace. All the world knows that this is true. The Soviet Union may pretend it cannot understand . . . That an effort should be made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous...
Tunner is operational boss of the great three-pronged "bridge to Berlin". Last week as the lift entered its 16th week, Tunner mused: "The trouble with all airplanes is that they spend too much time on the ground...
Keeping his planes in the air more of the time than experts thought possible a few months ago, Tunner looks on the lift as a precision operation, not as an adventure or a political demonstration. VIPs alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof airdrome are disappointed to see only a dozen planes on the ground. Tunner is proud of it. He has cut the time needed for unloading, checking, briefing and refueling to 30 minutes. The crews do not usually go into the operations office; it comes to them: a meteorologist and an operations officer in a jeep, a portable snack...
Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...
...engines. "They had a pretty good lunch in there today," said Baker to Hensch. "It was fish, but it was good." They had a little informal conversation with the control tower. (British pilots are still lost in wonder at the informality of U.S. communications. One British pilot walks around Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip say to his control tower, "Just give me the woid and I'll make like a boid.") Through the earphones came an efficient voice from the control tower. "2623, you are cleared for take...