Word: autobahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance of U.S. forces. Camouflage was sloppy, communication lines inadequate. Air strikes were too few, and too slow to attack when called. On the Rhein-Main Airfield observers saw cargo planes parked so close that they made inviting targets. Traffic moved placidly in daylight along the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn while, just off the road, supply trucks piled up outside the Sunset...
Again the Russians turned down the screws. Last week they slapped a toll on all West German passenger cars and trucks traveling the 103-mile stretch of Autobahn through Soviet-controlled territory that connects Western Germany with Berlin. The toll ranged from $2.40 to $36, depending on size and type of vehicle. Stated reason for the road levy: East Germany needs money for the upkeep of the Autobahn...
...Reds reversed themselves last week after three months of refusing to yield up R.A.F. Pilot John Driver and Sapper John Bennett (TIME, Nov. 27), unless the British surrendered Russian Lieut. Alexandre Bystrov. Without explanation, Driver and Bennett, who had accidentally fallen into Russian hands, were released at Autobahn checkpoints. Driver headed back to Britain; Bennett rejoined his unit. Bystrov, a political refugee, stayed, safe in the British zone...
...make frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...