Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Otto Schlüter, killing one man. Schluter's "sporting" weapons, police say, included hand grenades and medium guns bought in Communist Czechoslovakia and destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across the wheel, summoning police by the pressure of his body on the horn...
Proud Boasts. Last April Frankfurt's Public Prosecutor Heinz Wolf identified the Puchert attack as the work of a French terror organization called the "Red Hand," and added that "it is highly probable that the Red Hand is an undercover section of French counterespionage." The Red Hand's leader, he said, was Jean Viary, 37, onetime inspector in the French Security Police. And one of his two chief assistants, added Wolf, is a Christian
Durieux claimed that the Red Hand had promised the French government not to operate on French soil, but the promise still left Germany (where Durieux is wanted for questioning) open to Red Hand activities. Why. asked Frankfurt's influential Allgemeine, has the Bonn government not addressed a stern word of protest to Paris? "There is a limit to what we should be made to endure from our French ally...
...hiring every idle man in 30 miles not confined to a wheelchair, sent a recruiting team through Germany offering competitors' workers big pay increases. Another employer offered to pay his men $9.52 to bring in a teammate. When a depressed Ruhr coal mine laid off 400 men, a Frankfurt rubber factory sent agents out to hire them. After a Swiss-owned electrical plant at Ladenburg burned down, competitors in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen rushed to the workers' homes with job offers before the ashes cooled...
SMALL-CAR DEAL between American Motors and West Germany's B.M.W. is in the exploratory stage. Ailing B.M.W. (pygmy-sized Isetta, high-priced luxury cars) appears ripe for acquisition; massive purchases by speculators have sent its stock to new highs on Frankfurt exchange...