Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showing him to be the University's agent, are among the many documents be must carry. With War Department permission to remain in Germany only 14 days, Mueller does not yet know whether he will get a chance to use his Russian letter and visit Leipzig in the Russian zone...
Died. Princess Hermine, 59, who married Germany's late exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, a year after the death of his Kaiserin, Augusta Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely...
...Thirty percent of German industry in the Soviet zone (TIME...
...zone, a young man who made a name as a writer under Naziism works in a rock quarry and wonders how he can ever bring up three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
Small but Healthy. A British team headed by Cambridge University's Nutrition Expert R. A. McCance had made a searching study of some typical children in the British zone of Germany. The youngsters, living on a subnormal diet of cereals and vegetables, with almost no meat or milk, were shockingly small for their ages. But they seemed to be in excellent health. They were remarkably free from disease, showed no sign of rickets or vitamin deficiencies, played games as hard and spiritedly as U.S. children. The investigators concluded that the youngsters had adjusted to the reduced diet by developing...