Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of western Germany have turned a big corner. Six months ago, stagnation was still everywhere; today, from the Elbe to the Rhine, everything is in motion. Ponderous blocks of new building bulk cleanly amid the jagged skylines. In Hamburg, Frankfurt and Essen, brick red factory construction and flashy white housing projects chase the gloom of rubble grey. The ruins no longer depress, but act as a stimulant to German energy. A Hamburg shipping magnate curtly told me why: "If I don't get something done, I'll go crazy. That's sure. A war may take...
...meeting hall at Frankfurt's fair grounds last week gathered delegates from 22 Socialist parties in 21 nations (including Socialist Britain) and representatives of Socialist groups exiled from Spain, Argentina and Communist countries (including Yugoslavia). It was the eighth international meeting of Socialist parties* since World War II. At one point, four young Germans in blue shirts advanced to the platform bearing a huge scarlet banner on which the words Sozialistische Internationale were emblazoned in gold. But the old red flag was not what it used...
...boxing fans. Angrily taking up the cry of foul, the crowd filled the air with a barrage of pebbles, pop bottles and seat cushions that sent Robinson scurrying for cover with an escort of 20 cops. Not until he had escaped from Berlin aboard a U.S. military train for Frankfurt did Robinson finally learn the official outcome of the fight: no decision...
...officer in charge of escorting the Russians out of the U.S. zone last week was Major Gunther E. Hartel. Anxious to avoid a siege such as the Russians staged in Frankfurt two years ago - they left only after the U.S. cut off water, food and lights - the major invited the Russians to a formal conference at his office. At the conference, the Russians again refused to leave, but when they went back to their quarters, they found G.I.s busy loading their baggage into an Army truck...
...high brass fanned out over Western Europe. Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins last week wound up a tour that took him to Paris, Frankfurt, Salzburg and Trieste. General Omar Bradley stopped in Paris to talk over lagging weapons production, went on to London where he tried, but failed, to settle the question of whether a British or U.S. admiral was to command in the Mediterranean. Only the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman was still at home and he, too, was getting ready for the grand tour...