Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tunner is operational boss of the great three-pronged "bridge to Berlin". Last week as the lift entered its 16th week, Tunner mused: "The trouble with all airplanes is that they spend too much time on the ground...
Keeping his planes in the air more of the time than experts thought possible a few months ago, Tunner looks on the lift as a precision operation, not as an adventure or a political demonstration. VIPs alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof airdrome are disappointed to see only a dozen planes on the ground. Tunner is proud of it. He has cut the time needed for unloading, checking, briefing and refueling to 30 minutes. The crews do not usually go into the operations office; it comes to them: a meteorologist and an operations officer in a jeep, a portable snack...
...Master of Dunster House. He was a popular master, and he worked conscientiously at a job which, if occasional reports coming out of the exotic wilds of Dunster House are true, was far from easy. And he brought more than this conscientiousness to the House; he gave an indefinable lift to its activities that made Dunster come as near to achieving the original objectives of the House Plan as any of the Houses, and far nearer than most...
...Western Allies have no juridical right to be in Berlin, but declares that Russia has no intention of forcing them out. Stalin admits frankly that Russia's blockade was a retaliation against the Western powers' London plan for a Western German regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia's "insistent wish." The Russians certainly mean to do everything they can to delay...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who sometimes writes like a pellucid angel, sometimes like poor Poll, got his claws tangled with his beak last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "It was never possible, we must I believe suppose, that we could induce the Russians to lift the blockade unless...