Word: frankfurter
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...other carriers, which are also raising prices about 10% on their regular fares at the end of April, maintain much higher basic rates. Sample round-trip fares from New York: London, $639; Paris, $679; Rome, $799; Frankfurt, $734; Tel Aviv, $799; Tokyo, $1,305; Peking, $1,544. But then come all the different kinds of discounting: midweek flights are cheaper; so is APEX (Advance- Purchase Excursion rate, a round-trip ticket bought at least two to three weeks in advance). And then come discounts on discounts: if, for example, you cannot buy an APEX ticket 21 days in advance...
Levin, in surprisingly good physical condition, was flown to Frankfurt at week's end. There he was reunited with his wife and family, who had made the trip from Washington aboard a special military...
Life precipitated in the city, the locus of modernism. His own cities were Leipzig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above...
...Spirit of St. Louis plane had only one engine. But since 1939 all passenger aircraft crossing the Atlantic have been equipped with at least three. That is about to change. TWA announced last week that starting in April, it will fly from St. Louis to Paris and Frankfurt in twin-engine Boeing 767s. The airline will be the first to take advantage of a proposed change in Federal Aviation Administration rules permitting twin-engine commercial planes to make the crossing...
Oppau, Germany, Sept. 21,1921. The biggest chemical explosion in German history occurred in a warehouse about 50 miles south of Frankfurt when workers used dynamite to pry loose 4,000 tons of caked ammonium nitrate fertilizer. The blast killed 561 people and leveled houses four miles away...