Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1926 radio-telephone service was successfully installed by the German Railroads. Today, many express trains are equipped with radio-telephones; for instance, six expresses between Hamburg and Berlin...
This service was first established on some special trains on the Berlin-Hamburg run. Whether it is still being used I am unable to say, but it was by no means a stunt like the conversation between London, England and tram running from Montreal to Chicago which you mention in your article. The intention of the German Railroads was to establish a regular service...
...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...
...North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American pier in the Hudson River, 10,000 sober-faced Germans gathered for services over 28 flag-draped coffins while a U. S. Navy blimp circled overhead...
Soldier Son. On the spring evening 25 years ago when Christian was called to the throne, he was already acting ruler in his father's absence. The bad news came from Hamburg. There his tall father, Frederik VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...