Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week 57,000 tons more went overboard through the sale by William Averell Harriman's United American Line of the Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Hamburg-American Line. This will give Germany a gross merchant tonnage of 3,130,713, practically where she was in 1917 and not far below her 1919 registry, which the Allies wrecked by confiscation...
...years ago Mr. Harriman, then only 29 years old, made a pact with the Hamburg-American Line. In 1916, only three years out of Yale, he had decided that "the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the U. S." was shipping. He put to the back of his mind the legacy of railroad activities that his dour, nervous father, Edward Henry Harriman,* left him, that he himself trained in. He took interest in a small shipbuilding plant on the Delaware, enlarged it, built concrete shipways. After the War he operated Shipping Board vessels on commission...
Germans, being sturdy and efficient, are good at all sports in which method is more important than speed. They make excellent oarsmen. In 1905 the Atlanta Boat Club (U.S.) sent a four-oared shell to compete in a regatta at Hamburg. In 1914 a German shell raced in the Henley regatta. But not since that year, for various reasons, have the oarsmen of Hamburg pulled against those of the U.S. Last week the Hamburg Rowing Club sent its compliments to five U.S. colleges, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania, and invited them to come to Hamburg for the annual regatta...
Germany. Water filtering down into the earth from the flooded Rhine Valley slightly weakened the geological substratum of the Rhineland, and caused severe earth tremors, which terrified the already wretched flood refugees. Disastrous landslides took place in the Hartz Mountains. Reserve icebreakers were despatched from Hamburg and Bremen to keep open the badly frozen up shipping routes in the northern Baltic...
...night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks...