Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sections will deal with reparations, communications, the vast problems of repatriation. OWI's Psychological Warfare Division, under Brigadier General Robert McClure, will dissolve the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, institute an Allied control of internal information as rigid as anything ever dreamed up by the Nazis. For Allied newsmen in Germany, censorship will be relaxed but by no means abandoned (see PRESS). Plan Eclipse provides a public relations section with all the wartime paraphernalia of censorship, accreditation, communiques...
...Oberbürgermeister Alfred Freiberg, his sightless eyes fixed on the carved ceiling. In armchairs beside him, waxen-faced in death, sat his matronly wife and bespectacled daughter. In an adjoining room Stadtkämmerer (City Treasurer) Kurt Lisso, his wife and daughter also sat in poisoned death. The rigid bodies of four Volkstürmers sprawled in other offices. Two, it was plain, had sat across a table, sipping brandy until one had drunk enough to pick up a machine pistol, shoot his comrade and then himself...
Those who stared long & hard at these facts were amazed-and angered. They asked, how could there be a shortage of meat? By last week most probers of the meat mess had reached the same conclusion: too-rigid restrictions and price controls on a sensitive market had knocked the whole meat system galley-west. Unless something was done to ease the restrictions, the meat shortage will become progressively worse...
...minor U.S. poet and a student of anthropology, tries to answer her own question. To the tantalizing riddle of literary genius she has no answer, but she has brought together a fascinating collection of facts that show clearly the fantastically divided nature of the deacon who was equally a rigid, exemplary don and perhaps the most brilliant eccentric...
...said it would keep the "middle commercial," but promised to squeeze in "all of the most important news" first. "It would be unfortunate," CBS explained primly, "if good taste . . . should be endangered in favor of any rigid rule. . . ." But CBS favored one rigid rule: no more plugs on CBS for any show a CBS sponsor may be paying for on a rival network...