Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...From Frankfurt: When the U.S. first took the field against North Korean aggression, U.S. prestige was saved from annihilation. Had the U.S. ignored this aggression, Germans would have lost all confidence in its determination to resist Soviet aggression. But U.S. prestige remained in a precarious state of health until the Inchon landing...
...High Commissioner for Germany Frankfurt, Germany...
...Back in Frankfurt he buzzed for his staff. Said he: "Get it fixed. I will expect airplanes to be taking off five minutes after they have unloaded-by day after tomorrow." Three days later he dropped in again. "O.K., it's fixed," he grunted. "See if you can better...
...Airlift. Less than three years after the peace, when everyone else was loosening up their military girdles, LeMay found himself running the Berlin airlift as chief of U.S. air forces in Europe. One day a C-54 pilot at Frankfurt felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, looked up into the Old Man's three stars. "Son, I'll take this load," said LeMay. "Go and tell your dispatcher-and if he lets the other end know I'm coming he'll get hell from me." LeMay flew into Berlin, unloaded, then took his place...
Another result: Trans World Airlines, which long had battled the merger, finally gave up, mollified by CAB permission to fly to London and Frankfurt. Said T.W.A. Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "The court has spoken. T.W.A. intends to say it with service...