Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand," said a Berlin journalist, "that America won't waste planes as long as trains run into Berlin. But aren't you going to do anything with Berlin now that...
...Balance Your Budget." Today the memories of the struggle dissolve into melancholy. In the fifth month of the post-blockade "peace," Berlin is a city deserted by power, prosperity and purpose. At Tempelhof airport, where 15 big airlift transports landed every hour night & day, a few senile C-47s snooze in the autumn sunlight. On the grass between the runways, once jammed with quartermaster trucks and mobile canteens for hungry flyers, there sit stacks...
...Allies apparently plan to do little. They have left small staffs behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
...generosity has departed with U.S. power and personnel. To the West Berlin city government the Allies barked, "Balance your budget!" A second blow was an order ending U.S. direct subsidies. Henceforth Berlin must get its help from the new West German government at Bonn...
Jobs for Tag Stickers. Over Berlin's ruins the ivy still grows, but long stretches of the city's streets have been cleared. Street-corner lawns that had been stomped into shabbiness flourish again. Under the grey frown of gutted facades on the Kurfűrstendamm are rows of fancy-front, one-story shops...