Word: augsburgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production of planes as well as nonmilitary items such as sewing machines. Since we have just introduced the Messerschmitt automatic sewing machine under the brand name Bell-Messer-schmitt "Magnematic" into the U.S. market, we were most interested in seeing the article, but disturbed at your implication that the Augsburg plant, which produces the machines, was being converted to plane production...
...TIME should have made clear that Messerschmitt's Augsburg plant consists of four different factories; three will produce planes, the fourth sewing machines...
Among the planemakers likely to play big roles in the reborn industry: ¶Fighter Designer Willy Messerschmitt, who has kept busy repairing U.S. Army trucks, making midget cars (TIME, Sept. 19) and sewing machines while running an aircraft-designing bureau in Spain, is readying his Augsburg plant (sewing machines) for plane production. He has several planes on his drawing board, including a four-engined cargo carrier, hopes within a year to be employing 2,500 in aircraft alone v. 2,100 in all his ventures...
Across the room Augsburg's citizens, many of whom still have relatives and friends in East Germany, stream up to the stamp windows. And with a realism born of ten years' experience, they purchase not the refugee stamp--which pictures men and women fleeing west from the Iron Curtain--but the standard one portraying the cherubic face of Federal President Theodore Heuss...
...with the Soviet sector. Spearheading this drive is the Bonn government's official Ministry for All German Affairs, which, in addition to co-ordinating the activities of other groups, carries on a fairly extensive propaganda campaign itself. Perhaps the next most active organization is the one responsible for the Augsburg poster and many similar ones all over Germany: "Germany Indivisible--the People's Movement for Reunification." Formed last year by some of the country's leading political figures, the group stepped up its activity this summer with a series of large outdoor rallies...