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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kommandatura would try to reach agreements on transportation rules and such matters; if successful, this agreement would result in the Russians lifting the blockade of Berlin...
...when he apparently had his enemy pinned down to a costly airlift which at best could not sustain West Berlin at normal levels? Much of the answer lay in the almost total collapse of Communist prestige and support in Berlin and in all Germany-partly and ironically as a result of the airlift itself, partly as a result of stupid Communist mistakes. On the surface, last week's Red-staged "riots" in Berlin seemed to have paralyzed the bravely anti-Communist city assembly; underneath, they bore evidence that the Communist position in Germany was slipping. TIME'S Berlin...
...chief traffic artery. It was always silt-laden, a river continually chewing at its banks. The coming of steam made things worse; woodburning stern-wheelers stopped to cut into the tropical forests for fuel. That made for greater erosion, and also for a quicker rain runoff, with the result that the river could be high one day, low a few days later. Sandbars piled up so fast that steamers could not follow the same course from one day to the next...
Profits & Losses. On top of these added costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...
Scrawny Turkey. Once he gained fame, Author Caldwell abandoned his narrow, though unusual gift. Prompted perhaps by the party-line critics and earnest sociologists who misread his sordid stories as profound exposures of Southern society,* Caldwell undertook to write "seriously." The result was lamentable: each of his recent novels is more inept than its predecessor, and the latest one is as scrawny a literary turkey as has been hatched...