Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Service, Inc., children of 19 countries have labored to draw and paint Christmas cards thanking the U.S. for its gifts. Norse youngsters pictured their Little Dwarf with the red hat, who brings them the season's gifts; from Germany came a nightmare scene of a ship called Bremen at the bottom of the ocean, from Italy a picture showing two children amid Rome's ruins...
Christliches Jugenddorf Adelheide-the Christian Youth Village of Adelheide-is the name lettered on the big roadside sign outside the cluster of 20-odd two-story buildings near Bremen, in Germany's British zone. Adelheide was built to be one of the biggest Luftwaffe bases in northern Germany. At war's end it became first a D.P. camp, then (with the addition of barbed wire) an internment center for Gestapo-men and Nazis awaiting trial...
...splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with his own linen sheets, punkah wavers, court chamberlains and sauce cooks...
...town meeting agreed to contribute four freight cars of grain, dried fish and fresh vegetables to be flown to Berlin. All over Western Germany, much the same thing was happening. Russia's brutal siege of Berlin had shaken Western Germany out of a surly indifference. In Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, local governments passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead. "We weren't at all sure before that...
...those 7,000, 100 boys were chosen as members of the Bremen Boys' Club, BBC for short. Two original members, Martin Girschner, 16, now temporary president, and Guenther Hoist, 15, now temporary vice president, helped with selections. Applicants were asked to fill out forms. On the basis of these forms and the way in which questions were answered, the selections were made. Membership had to be limited, but there are now about 20 more than the limit of 100 in the club...