Air cargo the area surrounding the city and thus land access. As this access was closed, in the so-called Berlin blockade, an airlift remained the only option to get increasingly urgent deliveries of food, coal, and other supplies to West Berlin. Over 330 days to 12 May 1949 a total of 2.26 million tons of cargo were airlifted to Berlin, an average of 6,800 tons a day, 80% by the US and 20% by the UK. Although freight traffic developed modestly, reaching only 800,000 tonnes worldwide by the mid-1950s, the world economy was hitting its post-war stride. Germany and Japan were emerging
Tons of Money (play) the play in 1986 in a revival by The National Theatre starring Michael Gambon as Sprules and Simon Cadell as Aubrey. The play was adapted into film on two occasions. A 1924 silent film "Tons of Money" directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Leslie Henson and a 1930 sound version "Tons of Money" directed by Tom Walls and starring many of the Aldwych regulars, including Arnaud, Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare and Willie Warde. A television adaptation was broadcast by the BBC on Boxing Day 1954, starring Frankie Howerd as Aubrey. Graeme Muir directed. Tons of Money (play)