Word: autobahnen
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...reductions. What does seem essential is that production should continue its phenomenal rise, steel output its steady climb (last year it passed Britain's), exports their swift increase, so that there can be more goods in the stores, more wages in the pay envelopes, more automobiles on the autobahnen (where there are nearly three times as many...
...Peppy (top speed: 68) and economical (32 miles to the U.S. gallon), the Volkswagen has become the postwar model T. It outsells all other cars in five European nations, and is so popular that stiff import restrictions have been slapped on it by Belgium, France and Italy. On the Autobahnen of Germany, nearly one out of every two cars is a Volkswagen. In restriction-free Switzerland, Volkswagen sales lead all other makes, including American, by a wide margin. For the U.S. market, Volkswagen Boss Nordhoff knows that his car is too small and relatively too expensive ($1,500), except...
...rescued were tied to the outside of the whirlybirds like packages on a gypsy caravan. From Britain, herself heavily stricken (300 dead), came boats, planes, and engineering supplies as well. In one day the R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other vital supplies. The Netherlands War Ministry promised each G.I. the same daily bonus (26? and a package of cigarettes) that the Dutch soldiers got for flood relief work...
...thought the West would drop like a hot hand grenade as soon as the New York agreement was reached last May. They no doubt disliked Western stockpiling in Berlin as a buffer against possible future blockades. But Washington accepted with equanimity the prospect of more trouble on the Autobahnen. Said one Department of State spokesman: "We worked out a pretty good scheme of retaliation measures at the time of the lifting of the blockade. The degree of our reaction will be strictly proportionate to the Russian attitude...
...mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody and nothing beyond the next mouthful of bread...