Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist is the man who says "no" and walks out of United Nations meetings. He is the Guerrilla in Greece and the General Striker in Italy. He closes coal mines in France and ... is bringing about the economic creeping paralysis of Berlin's Western zones even while the dramatic airlift is in progress...
Even as the nation good-naturedly shook hands with itself after the election battle, the realities of the world came crowding back. The Berlin airlift was clapped under new Russian pressures. The U.S.-supported Sophoulis cabinet wobbled and fell in Greece. Along the nation's East Coast a wildcat strike of longshoremen exploded into a full-scale tie-up. Then last week came the news that the whole Nationalist government in China faced collapse, that Nationalist China was fighting for its life on the Suchow front...
...Although handicapped by planes generally smaller than those used by the U.S. Air Force, the R.A.F. has delivered 136,911 tons of cargo to Berlin - 30% of the total airlift...
...Schmeling, onetime world heavyweight champ, onetime Nazi paratrooper, now admitted being an ex-pug. In Berlin, he plodded through ten dull rounds, lost the decision, and announced, for the second time this year, that he would retire...
Staged by Mademoiselle Magazine, the show will feature girls from 10 nearby colleges in a showing of Bonwit Teller fashions. One half of the show's proceeds will go to NST's "Free University of Berlin" relief drive...