Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these inequalities, the Western Allies announced that the East mark was no longer legal tender in West Berlin...
...move cheered most Berliners. It proved once more that the West was in Berlin to stay. Announcing that the airlift would be stepped up once more, the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Frank Howley, declared last Sunday: "Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Neither the Soviet blockade at the Elbe nor winter's ice or snow have kept food, medical aid and coal from coming into the city. Attempts to scare the population have failed ... It must be clear even to the densest and most ill-willed Communists that their tactics are not succeeding...
Reserved Rights. Every time the U.S. protested against treaty violations, said the State Department, the satellites pointed out that protests must be made "in concert" with the West's Russian allies. The Russians flatly refused to act in concert-or to act at all except in support of the local Reds. Huffed the State Department: "The U.S. Government reserves all its rights under the treaties...
Principal Joe Harrell of the Thomas A. Edison School in West Dallas, Tex. keeps a barber chair just outside his office door, and a bottle of bright red hair tonic on his desk. "It's real loud-smelling tonic," says he. "That brings them in." It does, sometimes at the rate of twelve a day-pupils who might wait a long time for a haircut if it weren't for the little shop right there next to the principal's office...
...last five years, Principal Harrell has been worrying a good deal about things like that. A twangy, kindly man of 56, raised on a Texas farm, he has become a sort of patriarch to the people living in some of the more dismal patches of West Dallas. Statistics tell part of the West Dallas problem. Spread out along the bottom lands of the Trinity River, it is a dreary settlement of native whites, Negroes and Mexicans jammed into row upon row of one-and two-room shacks -some 25,000 people-mostly without plumbing of any kind. In West Dallas...