Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first problem is economic: control of German industry and the resumption of trade between the eastern and western zones. The second is political: the future of Germany and the German people. At the present time, the western bloc is trying to work out answers to both problems. The West is in haphazard control over most of Germany's heavy industry and is trying to make up for the absence of east German products elsewhere. Finally although the western Germans have agreed faintheartedly to a constitution, there is little doubt that this arrangement satisfies only a few of them. Germans want...
...week and a half, the foreign ministers of the United States, France, Great Britain, and Russia, will meet in Paris "to consider questions relating to Germany." These two occasions could mean nothing, as far as the cold war is concerned, if there is no real meeting of East and West, if there is more wrangling and suspicion. Under those circumstances, the conference will break up, as have so many other conferences before it, and the battle for Germany will continue--only more bitterly than before...
...close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...
Professor Graton also goes west for his work--out to Yellowstone National Park and the geyser country. Last summer he wired up a cable with six electric thermometers, all recording simultaneously on a remote sheet of graph paper. He carried the device all over Yellowstone, and lowered it down the gullet of every geyser he could find...
Crusade in Europe (MARCH OF TIME), a film history of the Second World War in the West, based on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's bestselling book (TIME, Nov. 22), is the most ambitious film yet made for television. Sponsored by TIME & LIFE, it will begin this week over the ABC-TV network, will be seen over stations in 32 cities. Crusade will be released in 26 weekly episodes of 20 minutes each; the whole series may then be repeated twice...