East Germany Shows Red Regime in All Its Brutality
Berlin dispatch describes Soviet occupied East Germany as poverty stricken and oppressive with widespread surveillance and hunger. It details freezing conditions, scarce transport, ruined infrastructure, constant fear of arrest, and a heavy Soviet military presence of about 300000, shaping daily life under totalitarian rule.
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East Germany
Berlin
INS
Europe
Germany
West Germany
Soviet Germany
Dresden
Cedar Rapids to Consider Sale of Hawkeye Downs Land
Cedar Rapids council will meet February 7 1949 to take final action on a resolution directing a deed to the All Iowa Agricultural Association. The tract known as Hawkeye Downs includes specified parcels in sections 4 5 and 8 township 82 range 7 west Linn County Iowa for cash of 7800.00. Taxpayers or interested citizens may file objections with the City Clerk before the meeting.
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Billarde
First
Burch Avenues
21St
23Rd Streets
First Avenue
Groue
Board of
Independent School District
Avenue Southwest
Cedar Ragidsa Linn County
Iowa
Frank J . Dvora
Cedar Rapid Linn County
Iiowa
City of
Cedar Rapids
All Iowa Agricultural Association
Hawkeye Downs
Interurban Railway
County of
Linn
Plane Collision Kills Two Over Long Island
A Pan American liner and a private plane collided at about 3500 feet over Long Island. Two private-plane occupants died, with their bodies reportedly torn into the passenger cabin. The Monarch of the Skies diverted to Mitchel Field after the crash. no injuries were reported among the liner’s 23 passengers and 10 crew.
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New York
Long Island
Pan American World Airways
Mitchelfield Air Force Base
Arthur Cutting
Portland
London
George Knuth
Mitchelfield
Skinner
Knuth
Vishinsky Leaves Hospital for Time in Prague
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, reported gravely ill at a Karisbad sanatorium, was described as improving enough to leave the hospital for several hours. Officials offered little detail on his illness or purpose in Czechoslovakia, and Moscow dispatches gave no corroborating notes.
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Prague
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Karisbad
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Vishinsky
Bohemia
Antonin Zapotcky
Zdenek Fierlinger
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Bigdome
Boss
J. Pluvius
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Dial
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R. E. Wilson
Smulekoff's
Bendix
Smulekoff
Maude M. Krebs
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Eamous
Star
Hugo Castello
Jane Gilbert
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N. C
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16Th Ave
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