Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard is one of several American college and universities, including Dartmouth. Princeton, Yale, Cornell Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley, who have been invited by the European Student Unions to send delegates to be their official guests for the summer. The delegates from Harvard will visit, among other places, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, and Bremen in Germany Gutenburg and Stockholm in Sweden, the Norwegian Fiords, Helsingfors in Finland Reval, Navra and Dorpat in Esthonia. Riga in Latvia. Kouno in Lithuaria Warsaw in Poland, Prague in Czechoslavakia, Geneva, and Paris...
...Mannesmann Tube Co. of Dusseldorf, Germany, largest steel-tube maker there, last week privately borrowed $5,000,000 in the U. S. through the American & Continental Corp. (U.S.) and M. M. Warburg & Co. (Hamburg, Germany...
...young Harriman made a master play. He created a contract with the Hamburg-American Line so that for 20 years his United American Line would represent the German company in the U. S. They would represent his company in Germany. German shipping had sunk to a pitiful low of 672,671 tons. Wilhelm Cuno, onetime head of the German line, was busy in Germany's muddled politics. The contract was profitable for both parties...
...Herr Cuno eventually returned to his business affairs. German officials at Hamburg and other ports grew less affable to the U. S. agents. Yet they dared not hint their wish to abrogate that contract. At the same time Mr. Harriman was noting the low earnings of transatlantic carriage. Now it seems, from the sale of these three ships, that the Hamburg-American Line is to go more on its own, that Harriman will concentrate more on his coastwise shipping, mayhap resume his railroad activities. (He is a director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman...
...Hamburg (reported the current issue of The World's Health) and in other Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved. Books of tickets, each worth five or ten pfennigs, are available to generous citizens at the City Hall. Upon being accosted, instead of handing the ragged one money, so often misgiven to impostors, the benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute...