Berlin Airlift: A Cold War Victory Remembered
Berlin faced a Soviet blockade in 1948 49 threatening food fuel and power for 2.2 million people. Airlifted by American and British planes the effort carried 2.35 million tons of supplies, maintaining West Berlin and marking a pivotal Cold War triumph.
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Berlin
U.S
Airforce
Curtis LeMay
Army
Lucius, D. Clay
Soviet Union
Kremlin
West Berlin
Ger-stal
Westmany
Vnes
Stalin
LeMay
Germany
Thej
Westiground
High cost of heart and kidney transplants kept high
Costs of heart transplants average upper five figures with bills like 28 845 83 for a Stanford case and estimates near 50 000 as procedures expand. Kidney transplants cost ranges and ongoing dialysis remain expensive. experts foresee no rapid cost decline even if routines expand and demand grows.
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New York
Centerlor
Congress
Ition
Donald Fredrickson
National Heart Institute
Former Scout Leader B Melvin Tudor to Retire in Des Moines
B Melvin Tudor longtime Boy Scouts of America executive and former assistant scoutmaster in Jefferson City will be honored at a retirement dinner in Des Moines Iowa. Tudor served as scoutmaster of Troop 7 at First Baptist Church in 1925 and led seven Jefferson City scouts to the 1953 jamboree in Budapest Hungary. He began as a professional scouter in 1938 and later held posts in Council Bluffs Cedar Rapids Des Moines and St Louis and Springfield Missouri. Reservations or messages for the event are through the Tall Corn Area Council BSA in Des Moines Iowa.
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B. Melvin Tudor
Jefferson City
Boy Scouts of America
Mondev
Des Moines
Iowa
Tudor
First Baptist Church
Budapest
Hungary
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
St. Louis
Springfield
Tall Corn Area Council
Towa
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Jacob
Malik
Philip Jassin
Whiphalla Inn
Westphalia
News-Tribune
Peng
Thrifty Finance
Michael Kasperak
Stanford University
Blue Cross Hospital
Fredrickson
Laboratory of Molecular Diseases of the Heart Institute
A. E. Griffey Mac
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Missouri Auto Club
Auto Club Inter-Insurance Exchange
Agrico
Timor
Chesebrough-Pond
State Industries Section
Missouri Department of Corrections
Wallau & Schnieders Brl
W. McCarty
Trafalgar Square
Bierdermans
Dix Road
Tally-Ho Land
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