Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail, such heavy shipments of Jews from Poland to Vienna that the monthly influx has risen from 2,200 in May to 14,500 for July; a rate of 40,000 is indicated for August. The Russians have facilitated the passage of Jews from the Russian to the U.S. zone in Germany and thence to the underground. Thousands of Palestine-bound Jews have started their water jump from the Black Sea ports of Russian-controlled Rumania...
After a fruitless questioning, U.S. Army Intelligence Chief Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert, whose strong-arm raiding squads have manhandled many a German Communist inside the U.S. zone, took over the Russian prisoners. For 34 days they were held near Frankfurt, interrogated twice daily. The Russians later said that they were "accused impudently but without success of espionage." To General Kotikov, the Russian commandant in Berlin, the U.S. commander, Major General Frank A. Keating, denied any knowledge of the missing Russians. Kotikov decided to bring a little pressure...
July 4 he got his chance. Lithuanian-born, 50-year-old Captain Harold Cobin and 23-year-old West Pointer Lieut. George Wyatt, both in their U.S. Army uniforms, decided to visit the Nazis' old concentration camp at Oranienburg in the Russian zone near Berlin. Russian officers picked them up and took them to Potsdam, where they were held and interrogated regularly for 26 days...
Every dispossessed landowner, disgruntled businessman and refugee from the Russian zone, with tales of war plants in full operation, is sure of eager listeners at Sibert's headquarters. And Soviet Counterintelligence Chief General Sidnyev's little army of Communist businessmen and technicians traveling in the U.S. zone looks avidly for the German armies which Russians are sure the democracies are training for war against Russia...
...spirit of sweet accord, Pan Am and Grace jointly announced a 99-year agreement under which Panagra will offer direct daily through service from the U.S. to South America, with Panagra planes and crews flying over Pan Am's routes from Miami and New Orleans to the Canal Zone and going on from there as usual. All that is needed now is the official blessing of CAB, which has already nodded approval...