Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since he joined Continental in 1950, he has used the lessons of his military engineer's career to triple Continental's sales (to $1.1 billion) and earnings (to $41 million), drive it from second place, well behind American Can, into position as the big gest U.S. container company...
...Syndicate. Between 1874 and 1910, more than 160 U.S. heiresses staged the first lend-lease program. They bestowed more than $160 million on the stately homes of England and the Continent. Some of them did worse than Ella Haggin among the cannibals. One traveled to Berlin only to find that, financially, she was the bride of a syndicate with shares in her dowry and income. Then there was a certain Lady T., who felt that her noble husband and his valet were strangely inseparable, but only when she got to the "earl's" estate did she learn that...
...have swept westward since September on one tourist flight after another. Each carries 44 lbs. of baggage, a dwindling $300 in pocket money. Behind them: Boston, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo. Ahead: Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo (midyear exams), Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Florence, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, London (final exams). So far only one student has been lost; he missed the plane in Baltimore, caught up next day in San Francisco...
Premier Khrushchev may set the cat among the pigeons as he did by telling Soviet journalists fortnight ago that West Berlin "is situated on the territory" of the East German state. But any Western words or actions displeasing to Moscow -a U.S. Navy plane dropping flares near a Soviet tanker in the Pacific, a London hint that sending Russian scientists into British laboratories calls for reciprocity, a U.N. committee vote calling on Communist North Korea to allow free elections for unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently...
...evening of Feb. 27, 1933, just a month after Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler...