Word: bydgoszcz
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...Forge, Salinger ran away from several schools. He managed only two semesters at New York University before dropping out. His father decided to take him into the family business and brought his boy along to Austria and Poland to learn all about ham. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz for a couple of months," Salinger wrote years later. "Where I slaughtered pigs, wagoned through the snow with the big slaughtermaster." Ham was not in his future. Back in the U.S., he made another halfhearted attempt at school, this time at Ursinus College in rural Pennsylvania. He lasted a semester...
...empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate), but it was hardly alone in that. Today's Polish towns of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, for example, went by their German names of Breslau and Bromberg not long ago. Israel's case differs from that of other new nations mainly because many have never reconciled themselves to its existence...
Like a familiar newsreel of some historic event, thousands of Polish workers walked off their jobs last week in a chain reaction of strikes that recalled the dramatic 1980 movement that gave birth to the independent Solidarity labor union. In the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz, bus and tram drivers paralyzed the public transport system for twelve hours and won a 63% pay raise. Next day workers struck at the sprawling Lenin steel mill near the southern city of Cracow, while employees at a military-equipment plant in the southeastern city of Stalowa Wola reportedly won large wage demands after putting...
...with their worsening lot, 600 Bydgoszcz drivers walked off the job early last week. Krzysztof Wojt, a Communist Party member and leader of the local official transport union, headed daylong negotiations with local authorities. Although they were seeking to double their pay, from 21 cents to 40 cents an hour, the drivers finally accepted a compromise offer of 34 cents and went back to work...
...statements by the very men that he had assigned to investigate the case. He claimed, for example, that because he was drowsy from the effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact that a ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence in the Interior Ministry's investigation of the crime...