Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This spiteful move hurt East Berlin as well' as the West sectors, and the Communists blandly restored mail service after two days...
Last week, at the appointed hour, 650 Bewag clerks, most of whom had homes in West Berlin, put on their coats, stalked out of the building, past scowling Red cops, and went home. "This is no strike," they said. "This is for good." They hoped to set up a separate administration for Bewag's three plants in West Berlin...
...City Assembly, chosen in the West Berlin elections, will take office in January. As interim mayor, the present assembly picked popular, forthright Socialist Ernst Reuter (whose party had won 64.5% of the total vote), ex-Communist, ex-concentration-camp inmate. Reuter was elected mayor of Berlin in 1946 but was prevented by the Russians from taking office. Last week he asked the Western powers to increase the airlift to 8,000 tons...
...Nazis had winked at the fact that he was "non-Aryan," allowed him to keep on working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg's field was cancer research, and Hitler had a personal dread of the disease. Warburg could also manage the occupation authorities. When Berlin was first occupied, he lost his riding horses twice, once to the Russians and once to the Americans; he got them back each time...
Round-faced Robert B. Jung, 34, the founder of Good News, is a Berlin-born Czech, a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground. He is now U.S. correspondent for Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung...