Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four or five times a day, Annapolisman Kiefer would get on the bullhorn and plead with his flight-deck crew to hurry up or "that admiral over there will give me hell." When the ship passed through the Canal Zone last fall, he saw to it that nearly all of his 3,000 men got shore liberty at the entrance or the exit. Some had to be carried aboard, but every man made it back to the ship. When the Ti set out from San Diego, only one man deserted...
...similar feeling was broadcast by Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
...Russian zone, political reorganization was speeded up. To German provincial administrations chosen a fortnight ago (TIME, July 16), Marshal Georgi Zhukov last week added carefully picked county administrations (Landratsdmter). The reason given for the Russian haste was the harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
...Each power would be responsible for food and fuel for the inhabitants of its zone. This meant that Americans, British and French must haul most of their supplies from west of the Elbe, a comedown from the original Anglo-U.S. contention that Berlin's outlying regions, which are under Russian control, should be Berlin's breadbasket. The Russian part of Germany was seriously short of supplies and could not support all Berlin...
...Marshal Georgi Zhukov, boss of Russian-occupied Germany, the Communist, Social Democratic and Christian Democratic parties offered candidates for the posts of president and vice presidents of the administrations of Saxony, Mecklenburg and Brandenburg in the Russian zone. In no case did the Communists, experts in back-seat political driving, propose one of themselves for president. They modestly preferred the vice-presidency. Promptly Marshal Zhukov accepted the candidates, who took office at once...