Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present semi-starvation level was either hoarded by German farmers or sold on the black market. Until the farmers met their food quotas, workers in Western Germany would go hungry. Last week, an emergency session of the Bizonal Economic Council (the highest German-run agency in the U.S.-British zone) passed a law to pry the food from the farm leaders. Henceforth, farmers and food handlers who failed to report all their stocks could be fined up to $10,000, get three years in jail...
Dirigible Pioneer Hugo Eckener, who was in the U.S. last year talking dirigibles with experts, was fined 100,000 marks by a French zone denazification court. The charge: membership in the Nazi party, wartime profiteering...
...journalism a profession, a trade, a game or a 6% investment? H. L. Mencken once gave his answer: "A journalist still lingers in the twilight zone, along with the trained nurse, the embalmer, the rev. clergy and the great majority of engineers. . . . [He] remains, for all his dreams, a hired man . . . and the hired man is not a professional...
...Frankfurt Betrayal of German Unity," screamed one Russian zone paper. "A Black Day for Germany," said another. In Berlin, plans were laid for a meeting of the Soviet-controlled All German People...
...need for the new economic plan was underlined by a crisis which mushroomed 150 miles to the north. Hungry Ruhr workers began a series of food strikes; at Solingen. Essen, Düsseldorf, Mühlheim, and then in Munich in the U.S. zone, workers laid down their tools. Food distribution had been bumbled. Local German governments paid scant attention to the food quotas set up by the present bizonal Economic Council, which was powerless to enforce its orders. The new economic courts, invested with power superior to the individual states, would be able to prosecute and penalize the state...