Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight of scaffolding, the smell of fresh cement, the sound of winches have become common in cities where until recently weeds had spread a green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
...last time Walter Hallstein saw the Statue of Liberty, he was wearing the uniform of a prisoner of war. Last week ex-Wehrmacht Lieut. Hallstein was back in the U.S., dressed this time in the neat suit befitting his eminent position as Rector Magnificus (president) of the University of Frankfurt. He had come to teach at Washington's Georgetown University and make a year-long survey of U.S. education. This week Georgetown students heard him describe university life in 1948 Germany, and learned that by comparison U.S. collegians, for all their congested campuses, have it pretty easy...
Musical Chairs. About 22,000 students -twice the prewar total-have crammed into the universities* in Germany's western zones. Frankfurt alone has 5,000, and 4,000 waiting to get in. Because there were not enough seats, students have had to lug their chairs from class to class. The space shortage has caused an academic revolution: in the old days, any qualified student could attend lectures for four years without showing his stuff until final examinations; today he is graded on his performance in a weekly Praktikum (quiz section), may be flunked at the end of a semester...
Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...
...noon the loudspeakers at Frankfurt's field blared out the official score: 652 flights had carried 5,582.7 tons of coal. It was a new airlift record-by 154 flights and 1,652.4 tons.* Said Airman Second Class Reuel McCafferty, who did five shuttle trips: "If the Russkies ain't convinced by now, I guess they never will...