Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privations and worries, the year of blockade was a glorious time in Berlin. The common struggle brought out the best in every man. It also brought hope to all Germans, west and east. It welded the non-German West into sufficient unity to create the Bonn government and the North Atlantic Treaty...
...sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...
Beyond the difficulties of everyday living, West Berliners resented particularly the Bonn government, which begrudged them money and would not press the Allies to allow Berlin as a full-fledged Land or state in the Federal Republic. They resented almost as much the stubborn French opposition to Berlin joining the Bonn regime. They worried about Allied flabbiness and the general state of Western strength. The Korean war had made Berliners ask: "If the Americans can't stop Communism there, how can they defend...
...Rearm the West Germans, not as an army controlled by their own Bonn government (an idea which made France jittery), but as a force under command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Oklahoma. A tall, talented gentleman by the name of F. Bam Morrison descended on Wetumka (pop. 2,500) to prepare for the coming of "Bonn's United Circus Shows." He got the Boy Scouts to sponsor it. The Meadors Hotel saved 20 rooms, a grocery ordered 100 Ibs. of frankfurters, the Coca-Cola Co. dozens of cases of pop. A truckload of hay was deposited on the circus grounds to feed the elephants. F. Bam Morrison sold $250 worth of advertising for the circus program; while he was working at it, the hotel donated his room, the Wide...