Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin, East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht showed signs of nervousness. He ordered the 100,000 men of East Germany's "People's Army" alerted to "maximum combat readiness" and gave them their first assignment: to use "all means" to try to stop the debilitating (and embarrassing) flow of refugees through Berlin to the West-an average of 1,000 per day last week. The Communists began to evict East Berliners who work in West Berlin from their homes, mounted a show trial of five East Germans charged with helping refugees escape (penalty: three years' imprisonment...
Block Commandos. The economy of Dresden, as of all of East Germany, has been hard hit by the refugee flow west. A precision mechanic said that eight of 30 workers in his factory section had left in the last three years. The Dresden Communist paper carries a daily appeal to women to join work brigades to alleviate the manpower shortage...
...table by the weary and discouraged French, who agreed to hand over the north, with its coal and iron, to the Communists. That left Diem's amputated south to go it alone. The economy was in tatters, and almost immediately the roads from the north were clogged with the flow of refugees who were to total 880,000 within a year. To cope with his problems, Diem had no cohesive civil service, could not even depend on a loyal army, since his French-trained military chief. General Nguyen Van Hinh, was personally hostile and forever plotting to take over...
...buyers patrolled the street in search of fine stones. The newly affluent Europeans are now competing in ever-increasing numbers for the better diamonds that in the lean years after World War II went almost entirely to the U.S. market. Their demand, on top of the slowdown in the flow of new diamonds coming from the Congo and South African mines because of racial and political upheavals, has driven up prices, e.g.. a flawless, two-carat blue diamond that retailed for about $3,500 on West 47th Street only two½ years ago, can now easily command...
...high-pressure ridge formed over the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada. Since air circulates clockwise around a high-pressure area, the ridge brought dry air streaming down from northern Canada. In a normal year the ridge would have shifted gradually eastward, allowing warm, moist air to flow northwest from the Gulf of Mexico and bring normal rain to the high plains. But this year the high-pressure area stuck stubbornly over the Rockies during June and the first half of July. The dry, sunny weather that it brought dried out and heated the earth's surface...