Word: dortmunder
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...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...
...Allies?France and Belgium?swooped down upon unsuspecting Germans at Essen, Recklinghausen, Dortmund and dragged away 1,700,000,000,000 marks. It did not matter; the Reichsbank has more than 1,182,038,536,000,000 more paper marks, and at the present rate they may even reach the impossible figure of a quintillion, i.e., 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 marks...
...exchange then current. Similarly with railway fares: The first class fare from Cologne to Berlin was 330 marks,--or $4.45; from Berlin to Stettin, 85 marks, or $1.28; and from Berlin to Frankfurt including sleeper, or, 191.60 marks, or $2.87. The fare by mail-plane from Berlin to Dortmund,--a trip for which we were booked, but missed on account of fog,--was 500 marks...
...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...