Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than a million are unemployed. Refugees at the rate of 30,000 a month stream in from Germany's Soviet zone and Eastern Europe; these people have no place to stay, for few houses are being built in West Germany, despite a desperate need. Most of West Germany's economic trouble is a shortage of investment capital...
...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...
...Worry. Last week Bishop Dibelius delivered the most ringing condemnation of the Soviet zone's Communist regime that had been made by any churchman in eastern Germany since the war. Wrote he in a Whitsuntide pastoral letter...
Roundly cheered by a mob of Communists and fellow travelers in London, Gerhart Eisler said he would proceed to the Russian zone of Germany and take a teaching post at Leipzig. Although jubilant, the little man seemed somewhat puzzled by his release. In his Red dream world, the British court which ruled on his case should have functioned as a docile tool of U.S. imperialist terror. Said Eisler, whimsically: "I ain't no mastermind, but I'm an average good Communist. I try to be a better Communist every...
...Look at the Chart. Bolivians, Brazilians and Argentines like to spread out big survey charts of the potentially great, 150-mile-wide petroleum zone stretching parallel to the Andes right across the Oriente. "Today we have tin, tomorrow oil," gloated a Bolivian engineer. "There is no better oil anywhere in the world," said a Brazilian, with an unmistakably proprietary air. The Argentines, who were already selling cast-iron plumbing in Santa Cruz, expected to have their...