Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of a free v. a controlled economy was not the only issue between the two parties. The Christian Democrats, headed by foxy, polished, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer, were backed by the Roman Catholic Church. Western Germany's bishops last month published a pastoral letter urging the faithful to vote for "Christian" candidates. To the bishops' letter, gaunt Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, violent champion of separation between church and state, made bitter reply. His party, he cried, had consistently fought all dictatorships, "whether marked by a swastika, a hammer and sickle, or deep black robes...
After the Russians lifted the blockade last May, Operation Vittles continued to fly about 8,000 tons of food and fuel a day into the city. Last week daily shipments were reduced to 4,000 tons. After October, when shipments will cease, only two U.S. Air Force transport groups will be left in Germany. By then the city's food & fuel stockpile should be an impressive 1,000,000 tons. But that did not change the fact that last week 200,000 of West Berlin's 2,500,000 people were out of jobs, or that the list...
...bandits' leader had cased the job well: he demanded two of the suitcases in the car and the Begum's jewel case. In them was jewelry worth between $600,000 and $800,000 (insured with Lloyds of London) ; among the 40-odd pieces were a $125,000, 25-carat diamond and a $190,000 bracelet...
...Olechny lost two fingers of his right hand fighting the Bolsheviks in Poland after World War I. When the Polish government rewarded him with a 75-acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...
...hijacking a $2,000,000 shipment of gold on its way to Bangkok's Don Muang airport. Now he was out on bail while the case dragged on in Siam's slowpoke courts. So was another chief suspect, a husky retired police captain named Pramote Prathuengphong. The two thieves, it seemed, had fallen...