Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When delegates from trade unions in the Russian zone held their first congress last week, Colonel Sergei Tulpanov pointedly welcomed them to Berlin, "the heart and capital of Germany." The delegates cheered wildly, for there was anxiety in Germany that, if the French had their way, the capital might be removed from Prussian Berlin...
...Legal Mind. Among the 5,000 New York-Connecticut residents who would be evicted from their pleasant properties by the world capital were numerous lawyers, most of whom seemed busy last week hunting for a loophole. The whole idea of giving up U.S. soil for an international zone, they said hopefully, might be unconstitutional...
...Czech Premier Zdenek Fierlinger vigorously denied a report that the Jáchymov mines were being worked by Russians. (The report had also stated that the uranium was being sent to Dresden, in the Russian zone of Germany. Fierlinger did not deny this...
Great Britain, faced with the task of building a brand-new team, drew France's better-seasoned team as a first-round foe, seemed sure to die a quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...
...announcement after another, the U.S. Army has liquidated that part of I. G. Farbenindustrie in its zone. Some plants of the globe-girdling cartel were actually destroyed. But others kept right on making civilian products. To Germans, remembering the resurrection of German big business after World War I, all this was hopeful. With few consumer goods available, they began buying Farben stock on the Munich and Frankfurt exchanges. In three months it high-tailed up from 68% of par to 141½, and then dropped back...