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...this month it will introduce a bus with "all the comforts of first-class air travel." The company is rushing work on a $75 million plant that will double Daimler's truck capacity. And Daimler-Benz General Director Walter Hitzinger, 56, met recently in Frankfurt with Volkswagen's Heinz Nordhoff to discuss an increase in the "cooperation" that began in October when VW paid $20 million to become the major partner in Daimler's Auto-Union subsidiary...
...first time in 20 years, the German language echoed once again through the cells, bunkers and crematoria of the infamous death camp at Auschwitz. It was spoken there by 16 lawyers and a judge from a Frankfurt war-crimes trial, who had made a special trip to Poland to check the credibility of testimony given at the trial of 21 accused Nazi murderers. Since war's end, Poland has kept a portion of the camp intact as a memorial to the estimated 3,000,000 slain prisoners, and as the German voices rang out, a Pole who had himself...
Each of the three would continue to operate its internal routes, but international flights to such points as Vienna, Rome, Geneva, Athens and Frankfurt would become a joint service. Together, as the planners see it, the three nations would be able to finance and fly new equipment and negotiate traffic rights that are difficult to attain alone in an increasingly complex air age. The backbone of the new line would probably be Pakistan International Airlines. One international run that profitable, government-owned PIA would continue to fly solo: its weekly flights from Dacca to Red China, which have been...
...food products are also entered in about 20 international exhibitions each year. This week some 50 U.S. processors go looking for customers at a joint Government-industry exhibit in Vienna, and the Agriculture Department opens a food fair in Frankfurt. Result of all the activity: 15% of the American farmer's harvest now goes to market abroad, compared with 8% of the nation's industrial output; last year U.S. meat exports alone rose 36% . Japan ranks as the biggest customer, followed by Canada and Britain. As West Germany's biggest agricultural supplier, the U.S. ships not only...
...textile manufacturer, Steinberg, 65, was born in Cologne, Germany. After graduating from the Cologne Conservatory of Music, he served as conductor of the Cologne and Frankfurt opera houses, came to the U.S. in 1937 at the behest of Arturo Toscanini to be his assistant conductor of the NBC Symphony. In 1945 he was appointed conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and held that post for seven years before going to Pittsburgh...