Word: burgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...
...British with Their Cameras!" Unknown to the Russians, the people's attention by now had largely turned on an extraordinary drama at the Branden-burger Tor itself. A tall, dark youth had climbed the gate and was wrestling with the red flag on top. The crowd watched his progress with the hushed awe of an audience at an acrobatic show-even as pistol shots sporadically cracked out from the far side along Unter den Linden. Now the crowd cried: "Anbrennen!" (Burn it!). The first youth failed to get the flag down; two more tried, and the third finally sent...
...Warren Burger, 40, a husky, handsome St. Paul lawyer who is Stassen's chief of staff. An idea man with tremendous drive, he runs the national headquarters in Minneapolis, makes all but major policy decisions for the boss...
...that Globe stock was worthless? "This Globe case," said he, "happens to be about the sorriest of the many issues floated last year-issues that should never have been offered to the public-even as speculations. . . . The underwriters of this stock were the Stock Exchange firm of New-burger & Hano of Philadelphia and Gearhart & Co. of New York. . . . What are the Stock Exchange and the National Association of Security Dealers doing about cases such as these...
Presbyterian Burger does not go in for hellfire or glory-shouting, and he does his best to steer clear of pious advice. His main job, as he sees it, is to provide an opportunity for worship to men who are isolated for months at a time. He also tries to be a good listener to tales of woe about women, money and liquor...