Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief trouble with the German system (which the U.S. had approved) is that it kills the farmers' incentive by demanding that they deliver 100% of their produce at fixed prices. In the Russian zone (where people are hungry but at least get their prescribed rations), farmers have to deliver only 60%, are allowed to sell the rest as they please. That gives them some incentive to produce...
...Starves First? The 40 million people in the U.S.-British zone need at least 850,000 tons of grain a month to live. Since January, the U.S. (with Britain paying half the bill) has provided about 330,000 tons of that amount each month. The rest was to come from German home production. U.S. supplies fell behind by about 130,000 tons, and German supplies last week were about 200,000 tons short of their quota. The German failure was partly due to the severe winter, which had destroyed stocks and disrupted communications, but chiefly to the breakdown...
...this deal, they were unanimously enraged. Demonstrations against trusteeship broke out all over the country. In Seoul, the capital, the liberal People's Republic Group, which turned out to be a Communist front, said it was going to demonstrate against trusteeship, too. The U.S. commander of the southern zone, Lieut. General John Reed Hodge, refused permission. The Communists went away mad, said they would parade anyway...
...what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled out, the Communists who now run northern Korea would not be able to swallow the whole country. Since Korea, now that Japan is demilitarized, can be made the base for dominating the coast of east Asia, Hodge's message began...
...hard formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving misery...