Word: hamburged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Foreign shipyards are booming. From Hamburg to Yokohama, shipbuilders are trying to keep up with orders totaling more than 6,000,000 gross tons (TIME, Aug. 3). But shipbuilding in the U.S. has been dropping steadily. In 1953, only 23,000 workers were busy building 40 new bottoms. If new orders do not come in. only three merchant ships will be delivered by U.S. yards in 1955 and employment will drop to 1,200. The U.S. merchant marine has been wallowing so badly that the Administration suspended all federal aid to shipbuilding last year and set the Commerce Department...
...amendment to the West German constitution, passed by the Bundesrat, to enable the Germans to rearm within EDC. Later, the French agreed to approve the amendment on conditions that would require a delay of four or five months in German ratification of EDC. The Germans jutted their jaws. Editorialized Hamburg's influential Die Welt: "If the French had intended to produce Europamüdigkeit [a state of being fed up with Europe], they could not have acted otherwise." The West German Cabinet bluntly told Paris that its conditions would be ignored as "extraneous...
Cordes & Co. of Hamburg, Germany...
...American World Airways will start regular tourist flights from the Midwest to Europe next year with biweekly service from Chicago and Detroit to London, weekly flights from the two cities to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hamburg. Pan American has had CAB permission for such flights for years, but only now thinks there is enough traffic to make regular service profitable...
Adenauer himself had .campaigned hard in Hamburg; far more was at stake than local issues. By winning control of the Hamburg Assembly, Konrad Adenauer also won control of Hamburg's three votes in the Bundesrat, exactly the number he needs to give him a two-thirds majority in the Federal Republic's upper house. Now he can amend the federal constitution, if need be, to ensure the legality of West Germany's participation...