Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrifty Dutch have a small coal reserve, piled up by working hard in the mines' in the southern part of their country while the northern part was being liberated. But current production of 240,000 tons a month is still 82% below the prewar output. Italy, which once used to import 1,000,000 tons of coal a month, is now getting only 10% of that. Norway is out of fuel and Sweden, which managed to build up a stockpile of German coal during the war, will soon be scraping bottom...
Dignified General Walter Krueger briefed the troops himself, and was on hand for the dawn take-off to wish the men "good luck, now." As Sixth Army commander he had worked out the plan to end the Cagayan Valley campaign in northern Luzon. He had a special interest in the 11th Airborne Division's jump be hind Japanese lines...
Four Way Partition. The partition of Germany into occupation zones, long both a problem and a mystery, was a mystery no longer. In Berlin the Russians would control the central city plus the industrial northern and eastern sections. Britain would control the western and northwestern suburbs, the U.S. the south and southeastern suburbs. In western and southern Germany the U.S., Britain and France would occupy zones comprising about half of the country's area, more than half its. population, less than half its food resources...
...routes they will fly, there was some question. Best guess was that: American Export would fly to northern Europe via Foynes (Ireland), Scandinavia and Moscow; T.W.A. would fly to London, then through middle Europe to Cairo; Pan Am would keep its present routes to Lisbon and Foynes, would be given a new route through the Mediterranean to Cairo. In addition, it is expected that Pan Am would get something it has long wanted: permission to pick up passengers in the Middle West, probably at Chicago or Detroit...
...high, intellectual forehead was used to hard knocks. He had fought through World War I (four wounds, four decorations). He had fought against Fascism, as a journalist and organizer of the Actionist underground. In World War II he had fought the Germans as vice commandant of the northern partisans. A middle-of-the-road man, he had been chosen as the compromise leader of a compromise Cabinet...