Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North & South. Previously, German industry, its order books full, turned up its nose at armament orders. Fritz Berg, president of the Federation of German Industry, said "Never again." But in a speech a month ago, he changed his tune: "We see no reason why military contracts should be handed to foreign firms when German industry can handle them just as well." The big Henschel locomotive and truck-building firm has just contracted to make tanks, already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once...
...Fritz Sänger, 57, was absolutely right: after ten years, he was out as chief editor of D.P.-A.-and by last week the West German press bristled with charges that his firing was for reasons that were political, not professional...
...respected German Socialist leaders, Carlo Schmid and Fritz Erler, returned from Moscow last week, having learned for all their "flexibility," that the Russians had their own definitions of "the possibilities of reducing tensions." Schmid and Erler talked for three hours with Khrushchev. Afterwards, Khrushchev indicated that Socialists might be easier to get along with than Konrad Adenauer. But Socialist hints that they would be willing to take West Germany out of NATO got no response from Khrushchev. Waving a stubby finger at the two Socialists, he said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification...
...became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy but was a genuine rough-string rider...
...single-stacked British liner Athenia was known for comfort and informality-her slow crossings rarely attracted millionaires or celebrities. She sailed from Liverpool with 1,102 passengers (including 311 Americans) the day before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, and she had hardly pushed into the Atlantic when Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, commanding the Nazi submarine U-30, got orders to open hostilities. It was twilight, and Lemp thought she was an armed merchant cruiser-legitimate prey...