Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When cabled to Berlin, these guarded words were featured by the press, along with a report just issued by Commercial Attache of the U. S. Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
Famed and unique is the network of subterranean mains which supply a score of factory towns in the German Ruhr with cheapest natural...
Epochal seems the recent project of fueling all German cities with a national network of such super gas mains...
...jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains the cream of German crookdom. Traditionally a tithe of the loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers are richly fed when Club members get arrested. Every so often despatches tell that the Ever Loyals have held another unexpected, cataclysmic midnight convention in Berlin. Always on these occasions they appear...
...bright places that will know them no more, friends of the 200 novices declared soberly that their tortured haste to do penance showed "the deep-founded desire for peace among the German people...