Word: hamburged
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...long-expected warning signal came out of Germany last week. It came from Germany's roughest, toughest and second largest city, half-ruined Hamburg...
...Hamburg's citizens have been normally in the vanguard of trouble. They had rioted during the 1918 Spartacus Putsch and spearheaded the abortive 1923 Communist insurrection. Hamburg once had Germany's largest percentage of Communists, later it went enthusiastically Nazi. Last week Hamburg went to extremes once more...
...Schmeling had housing trouble in Hamburg. He kept building away at a house without permission, so the British Military Government stopped him: three months in jail and a 10,000-mark fine...
...Same day the News gave a scant two paragraphs to an A.P. report of hunger raids on 60 Hamburg bread stores, and a British medical officer's report that the first definite signs of starvation were apparent in the city...
...banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F. flying instructor named Ross C. ("Bill") Shepherd, who offered to fly amputation cases to the party on a free shuttle service. (He was overwhelmed with applications from veterans who wanted...