Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin-bound freight train puffed out of Frankfurt, loaded with meats and grains. The story of what happened to it is the story of zonal government in Germany...
Seven days later, the U.S. quarter master at Berlin asked the U.S. quarter master at Frankfurt why the train had not arrived. Frankfurt passed the query on to British headquarters at Lüneburg. Inch by slow inch, yards of red tape unwound. Five days later came the report: the train had passed promptly through the British zone...
Next the Russians were approached. Red Army transport men tracked the train to Magdeburg, where a German dispatcher had routed it to Leipzig instead of to Berlin. There it was unloaded and the freight warehoused...
...Russians asked Frankfurt to identify the freight. Then they reloaded it. On the 30th day after leaving Frankfurt, the train reached Berlin, some 250 miles away...
...golden British market. Many a British M.P. had angrily suggested that importations from Hollywood be cut. They had complained that Hollywood made $80,000,000 a year in Britain, while British pictures, even good ones, could hardly get a showing in the U.S.. Example: the superb movie Night Train grossed only $650,000 in the U.S., less than many a poor Hollywood B picture...