Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose sworn and ordered mission is to create chaos . . . The people of Berlin will not be permitted to starve." Unfortunately, Howley could not tell them exactly how they would be fed. Western Berlin depends for the most part on 2,000 tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week.* At week's end, Berlin had only enough bread left for 25 days, enough meat...
...Russians, of course, had refused to go along with the reform in their own zone. They put the event to their own use by halting all road and rail traffic into their zone, then set up the most rigid inspection yet for supply trains intended for western Berlin. At week's end the U.S. Army stopped supplying Berlin by rail rather than submit to the inspection. More clearly than ever before, Germany was partitioned...
...night last week the speedy auto-rail train which links Paris with the rubber-manufacturing city of Clermont-Ferrand ground to an unscheduled stop five miles short of its destination. Surprised passengers stumbled over luggage piles into waiting buses and heard a guard explain: "The station at Clermont-Ferrand is in the hands of Communists." The "Akron of France" had become the scene of France's bloodiest battle since liberation...
...House. In Hoboken, N.J., Steve Soss was quietly arrested for drunkenness when he entered police headquarters, put his foot on a brass rail, ordered a glass of wine...
...antiquated, erratic Long Island Rail Road also came in for some parboiling. It had received permission from ICC, reported the Bawl Streeters, to charge what its service is worth. This "drastic curtailment" of its revenue had forced the Long Island to enter a new field-supplying daily comic features to 482 newspapers. General Manager David E. Smucker was made to say: "The newspapers will have to pay for the funny features which the Long Island has hitherto supplied them without cost. A ... test in the Middle West revealed that 89% of the readers rated the Long Island the nation...