Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Original. In West Los Angeles, Patricia Winiman was fined $25 for driving 54 m.p.h. in a 20-mile zone, despite her excuse: "My baby crawled down . . . and pushed the accelerator...
...Truth: The Potsdam Agreement did not say how many dollars' worth of reparations anyone was to get; it allotted Russia 25% of the plants that would be removed from the Western zones, on condition that the Russians ship a certain amount of raw materials from their own zone to the West. Russia has received more than 50% of all the plants removed, but has delivered no raw materials so far. She also consistently blocked Germany's economic unification, which, in the U.S. view of the Potsdam Agreement, was a condition for reparations shipments from the West...
Molotov: "The main attack is now being launched against reparations on deliveries from so-called current production. . . . There are no current reparations deliveries from the Western zones while the level of industry in the Anglo-American zone reaches only to 35% of the 1938 level. From the Soviet zone of Germany, current reparations deliveries are taking place and the level of industry there has already reached 52% of the 1938 level . . . although conditions there for the rehabilitation of industry are more difficult. ... It follows that reparations deliveries, far from hindering the rehabilitation of industry, facilitate this rehabilitation...
...Truth: 1) the Russians have a food surplus in their zone, while the U.S., Britain and France have in their zones an annual grain deficit of 6,400,000 tons on their hands; 2) the Russians use "administrative pressure," sometimes called slave labor, to make their Germans work; 3) Western Germany's complex, highly interdependent and heavily bombed industries are harder to revive than the simpler Eastern industries...
Leverett's zone defense collapsed like the walls of Jericho in yesterday afternoon's basketball game at the Indoor Athletic Building, as Winthrop won a lop-sided battle...