Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Lucius D. Clay . . . he so judiciously and fearlessly carried out his duties in Berlin that his actions are tangible proof to the world that we mean what we say and cannot be bullied by a scheming Soviet Russia...
...transport services of the Navy and Air Force had been merged into the Military Air Transport Service, and the Berlin airlift was a dramatic demonstration of what M.A.T.S. could accomplish...
Alben Berkley was going to spend his Christmas with the U.S. garrison in Berlin, as co-star of a cold-war U.S.O. troupe that included Bob Hope, Jinx Falkenburg, Irving Berlin, Air Secretary Stuart Symington, and half a dozen Rockettes. A Congressman for 35 years, Vice President-elect for eight weeks, Barkley was living up to his new responsibilities: "My time just isn't my own any more...
...Western sector of Berlin, the city assembly did some strenuous housecleaning. First they voted to sweep the name of Wilhelm Pieck, pink-faced boss of the city's Reds, from the roll of its honorary citizens. Then they went to work on some moldering skeletons in the back closets. Also wiped from the honor roll: Hitler, Goebbels and Göring. Second-Reich President Paul von Hindenburg survived...
...part, Pan Am would get American Overseas' 14,345 miles of heavily traveled routes, including those to Holland, Scandinavia, Berlin. By combining operating staffs, and some ground crews along the way, Trippe looked for operating economies in the merged lines. Best of all, it would leave T.W.A. the only other competing U.S. flag line on the North Atlantic...