Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average German in the Russian zone had at least as much in food, clothing and manufactured goods as Germans elsewhere. He had more coal to heat his house. zone, the Russians went slower. Key production men could stay on the job, be tried later. <| A Russian general coldly explained that demobilization was not permitted to break up occupation units. The "let's clean this up and go home" spirit so evident in the U.S. zone was frowned...
...same time the Soviet-zone press triumphantly reported a resolution by Communist and Social Democratic leaders favoring a merger of their parties. Without it, the Communists stood a poor chance at the polls. The Soviet-zone press failed to report that the Social Democrats had set conditions: both parties must be organized on a national scale and the merger approved by majority vote of the Socialist rank & file. The Socialists did not want to repeat the fatal rivalry of the 19205; but they obviously sought to evade Russian pressure for an outright merger's kiss of death...
...area sizable enough to impress the nationalists and give the Dutch a base from which to negotiate. The Dutch agreed to initiate talks with the moderate nationalists, to pay a higher political price for order in their Empire. Dr. Van Mook prepared to return immediately to the trouble zone...
...Berlin's Russian zone, 100 prints and drawings of the poor, the sick, the starved and the dead went on view. Done by the late German Socialist Käthe Kollwitz (TIME, Dec. 3) and damned by the Nazis, they were mostly about Germany after World War I. But many had an obvious application to the present...
Basketball's secret service, more serviceable than ever this year, had become as much a part of the game as bucket plays and zone defenses. Distance was no protection. Wyoming scouted Long Island U.; Big Ten teams spied frantically on one another. Advance reports can mean as much as ten points in the score. Scouts found and filed such facts as these...