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Frankfurt, is nonetheless enough to employ a great many Berliners in the building trades for years. The Berliner Zeitung estimates it will take 16 years to haul away the capital's rubble, 20 years and two billion dollars to replace all the destroyed homes. But there is no question that Berlin will survive, as a city and as the capital of Germany...
...pork to UNRRA for the last half of 1945, the U.S. had supplied 7,000 tons and can celled the rest of the allocation. The U.S. Army had 50,000 or more surplus trucks in Europe. But only 3,022 had been released to UNRRA, which needed trucks to haul food as badly as it needed the food...
...Each power would be responsible for food and fuel for the inhabitants of its zone. This meant that Americans, British and French must haul most of their supplies from west of the Elbe, a comedown from the original Anglo-U.S. contention that Berlin's outlying regions, which are under Russian control, should be Berlin's breadbasket. The Russian part of Germany was seriously short of supplies and could not support all Berlin...
...wife set Australians an example in austerity by living on $8 a week. A bone-&-marrow union man, he regards capitalists as "ordinary blokes" who will embrace socialism of their own free will. With Chif at the political throttle, the Commonwealth looked set for another long haul on the leftist limited...
...manpower (the Nazis employed 160.000 slave workers in the Ruhr) and provide housing and food for the miners, now getting only 1,000 to 2,200 calories a day (requirement for men engaged in heavy labor: 4,000 calories). In addition, the railroads and canals must be rebuilt to haul the coal away...