Word: airlift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says "no" and walks out of United Nations meetings. He is the Guerrilla in Greece and the General Striker in Italy. He closes coal mines in France and ... is bringing about the economic creeping paralysis of Berlin's Western zones even while the dramatic airlift is in progress...
Even as the nation good-naturedly shook hands with itself after the election battle, the realities of the world came crowding back. The Berlin airlift was clapped under new Russian pressures. The U.S.-supported Sophoulis cabinet wobbled and fell in Greece. Along the nation's East Coast a wildcat strike of longshoremen exploded into a full-scale tie-up. Then last week came the news that the whole Nationalist government in China faced collapse, that Nationalist China was fighting for its life on the Suchow front...
...Although handicapped by planes generally smaller than those used by the U.S. Air Force, the R.A.F. has delivered 136,911 tons of cargo to Berlin - 30% of the total airlift...
From Berlin's Gatow airfield to R.A.F.'s London headquarters last week went a cry for reinforcements to fight off saboteurs. Thousands of starlings flocking to Gatow were menacing the props of airlift planes. Airmen knew that HQ had just the weapons to handle them-a squadron of fierce falcons trained to keep Britain's airfields clear of gulls, plovers, rooks and other airborne pests...
...Three Musketeers (MGM) has more ups & downs than the Berlin airlift. When it keeps to the stratosphere of high-spirited comedy, it is an engaging, exuberant film version of the old Dumas swashbuckler.* When it tries to settle down and take itself seriously, Musketeers hits a few air pockets...