Word: eisenbahn
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks ($1.20), and considered himself lucky to have been one of the first individuals to talk over the new commercial train-to-station, intertrain and station-to-train German telephone...
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