Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rock-solid symbol of Western determination. Though his first fleeting reaction to the Berlin blockade was an impulse to ram through with an armored convoy, he had steered clear of blunders that could have brought a shooting war. With Russian capitulation on the Berlin blockade, the way to civilian control of the occupation was as clear as it would ever...
After a month of rummaging through statistics, Federal Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods was ready to explain what he thought Congress had in mind for the nation's tenants and landlords. To assure landlords a "fair net operating income" under the new rent-control law, said Woods, his area rent offices will take a look at the books of every house and apartment owner who feels that he should get more rent. Their requests will be screened through a new formula...
Lorelei Song. The Big Four had agreed to meet in Paris May 23 to consider "questions relating to Germany and the problems arising out of the situation in Berlin, including also questions of currency in Berlin." What lay behind this bland clause was clear. Russia wanted control of Germany. Having failed to get it through the Berlin blockade, Russia would try again, with different tactics, at the Paris conference...
Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...
...emotion he may feel is kept well under control, save for an occasional sharp word to a bungling manager, or a blast of choice invective to some motorboat jockey who wanders out on the course just before starting time, kicking up waves in the path of the crews...