Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, which hasn't got its tennis legs back yet, the Davis Cup team to beat is France. It was easily the standout in the opening round of the European Zone eliminations last week...
...four singles matches against Great Britain the Frenchmen didn't lose a set. But the whole show looked more like public-park tennis than Cup matches. Whoever wins the European Zone finals-France, Sweden or Yugoslavia-will still have a long way to go for a chance at the Australian cup holders...
...must first dispose of its American Zone rivals (the Philippines, Canada, Mexico) before it meets Europe's winner in August. The big U.S. tennis question was how 24-year-old ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer would do after going through five invasions, and playing little tennis for two years.* Kramer answered it in Los Angeles last week by drubbing the U.S. wartime champion, Frankie Parker, 8-6, 6-1, 9-7. U.S. Davis Cup stock jumped...
...that procrastination was bearing a bitter fruit. Germans in the Russian zone were eating 1,600 calories a day, in the U.S. zone, 1,275, m the British zone, 1,000. Much of the machinery left by Russian reparations grabbers was humming...
Much of the Ruhr's food used to come from eastern Germany, now in the Russian zone. The British will not get industrial production on the upswing until there is either 1) real economic cooperation between the zones, or 2) acceptance of the split, followed by a positive U.S., British and French policy for getting their part of Germany going. The present level of German production was so low (and so likely to drop further) that not even the most vindictive Morgenthau-er could reasonably object to emergency recovery measures...