Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kramer was temporarily excused from his job as a player on the U.S. Davis Cup team to compete at Wimbledon. This week, without him, the U.S. beat Mexico's Davis Cuppers to win the American zone playoffs...
...gloves last week in Yankee Stadium, handsome Billy Conn, grinning hideously through his mouthpiece, moved in close to Joe Louis, muttered "Take it easy . . . we've got 15 rounds to go." By the third round, jeers began in the $30 seats, a half block away. In the $100 zone, Moscow's Andrei Gromyko (guest of Bernard M. Baruch) and Hollywood's Ann Sheridan were perhaps as disgusted, but more polite about it. In seven rounds, hardly a solid blow landed...
...before a stockholders' meeting of the Singer Manufacturing Co. in Man hattan last week stepped President Sir Douglas Alexander, 81. The British-born president had bad news. The company's big sewing machine factory at Wittenberg, in the Russian zone of Germany, had been "evacuated" by the Russians, lock, stock & shuttle, to Podolsk, U.S.S.R...
Actually, the Russian action was not as larcenous as it looked. The Potsdam Agreement stated that Russian reparation claims should be met by "removals" from the Russian zone of Germany, did not spe cifically exempt any property, even that of businesses owned by United Nations...
Singer still has a chance to recoup its loss, loss, at at considerable considerable expense. expense. Under Under a a U.S.-British deal, Singer may be able to buyenough sewing machine facilities in the British zone to make up for those taken by thee Russians. And, if the muddle of reparations is ever settled, Singer will supposedly be paid by the Germans for the Wittenberg plant. But Singer is not sanguine about collecting. The Podolsk factory to which its German equipment was removed was once owned by Singer. After the Revolution in 1917, the the Soviets seized it, later agreed...