Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the U.S. occupation zone, German Bürger put on their Sunday best, went to church, and afterwards to the polls. It was their first free election in 13 years...
About 85% of the zone's eligible citizens queued up at the polls. But the heavy turnout was not all due to sudden democratic zest. Said Bürger Nikolaus Menge of Bad Sooden: "I'm voting today because it will please you Americans. . . ." Said Bürger Hans Berger: "The polling booths are the warmest places in town...
...most notable finding of the Navy's experimenters-and the basis of Sofar-is the sound-carrying property of water 2,000-6,000 feet below the surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...
...countered with a three-point plan: 1) "all hostilities within the country shall cease and railway communications shall be restored"; 2)-General Marshall should be consulted by a representative of the Government and a representative of the Communists; 3) an impartial commission should investigate conditions in the civil-war zone...
...name of Martin Bormann suddenly popped into the news from Germany last week. It was reported, discussed and then denied, that the man Hitler chose to witness his political will had finally been found in the British zone. He was wanted in the prisoners' dock at Nürnberg. In this glaring end of Naziism, as in its dark beginnings, Martin Bormann was still a shadowy figure...