Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very good dinner at this hotel -- which is one of the-three best in Berlin--cost about a dollar and a half, and a rather pretentious one with wine about three dollars. There was little dressing for dinner at the hotels. In the restaurants of less degree the charge was much loss. Of course a dollar and a half was a hundred marks, which does not grow on every bush in Germany. German beer is poor on account of the shortage of cereals, but the bills of fare showed native wines at very low prices in terms of our money...
...Berlin Conditions Near Normal...
...Custom house in Berlin we found that the importation of paper is forbidden. We spent an hour in preliminaries, visited the Commissioner, who issued a permit in fifteen minutes, and on the next ensuing week day spent a further hour and forty minutes, during which two men worked continuously on examination and classification of our samples and computation of duties. Our growing alarm was assuaged when we received a bill for a dollar and eighty cents -- in marks of course...
...Berlin a superficial glance about as one left the station and rode through the streets showed fewer departures the streets showed fewer departures from normality than might have been expected. Station and streets were well filled; there were plenty of taxis waiting, duly equipped with pneumatic tires: policing was good, and shop windows were attractively dressed. The appearance and behavior of the crowds seemed perfectly ordinary. On the other hand the standard of clothing was low,--thought not as conspicuously so as we had expected; there were a good many old uniforms; there were not many private automobiles about...
...suitable for presents, at remarkably low prices in terms of American money. The major automobile companies bad fine window displays, but we did not see anyone in the showrooms. The North German Lloyd and Hamhurg American Companies advertised rather extensive Air-plane service, but apparently only the Berlin-Dortmund small route, and possibly one other line were in anything like regular operation...