Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopeless. The U.S. has about 1,500 troops here, Great Britain about a 1,000, and France about the same. The Russians undoubtedly have more than the combined Western total in the city alone, to say nothing of what is in the rest of of the Austro-Russian zone and in Czechoslovakia 25 miles away...
...their manufacture. Last week, with 12,000 tons ($17 million worth) of export goods piled up in West Berlin, the West met this new threat to Berlin's reviving economy with:1) a new airlift in reverse, 2) a trade embargo between West Germany and the Communist Eastern zone...
...from Berlin to the west. Prospects were that unless the Russians dropped their demand for "certificates of origin," this "baby airlift" might be reinforced with military aircraft. At the same time, along the 500-mile curtain between East & West Germany, western border guards halted all freight, depriving the Soviet zone of a daily inflow of $238,000 worth of western goods, among them badly needed iron and steel products. Backed by the Allied High Commission, the Bonn government refused to ratify a new trade agreement between East & West Germany until the Communists stop interference with West Berlin traffic...
...Communist roosts all over the world. To swell the big flocks from East Germany, the other satellites and Russia, hundreds of Chinese and North Korean peace doves, some sporting Korean campaign medals, fluttered in via Moscow. The Reds also promised to deliver 100,000 from West Germany, but West Zone police turned back thousands of West German youths (although Red Zone policemen sent up smoke signals to guide delegates through gaps in West Zone border patrols...
...Larsen and Herb Flam sailed through their singles matches against the Mexican Davis Cup team at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y. Then the doubles team of Flam & Vic Seixas polished off Mexico's brother combination of Armando & Rolando Vega to put the U.S. into the American zone finals against Canada...