Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every comely stenographer on the Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
Moscow this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade-at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the question of a single currency for Berlin "together with other questions bearing on Germany;" 2) the Western Powers must lift their counter-blockade by which they have prevented trade between Germany's eastern and western zones...
...West seemed ready to agree to another Big Four conference, and to lift its counter-blockade. But it was not willing to abandon its plans for Western Germany. Day before the Tass announcement, the Western Powers reported full agreement with the West Germans on their proposed constitution. West Germany was closer to statehood than ever before (see below...
This week the German leaders met with the three Military Governors in the ex-SHAEF war room in Frankfurt's big Headquarters Building. After six turbulent hours, General Clay emerged with a broad smile. Said he: "It's all settled." He specified: "There are no remaining differences either between Germans or ourselves or between the German political parties...
...Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort at Kiangyin, whose big guns were silent...