Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clammy dawn, a railway inspector in Hamburg last week was making his rounds of freight cars on a siding. A car packed with crated machinery from Hungary caught his eye. From a knothole in one big crate, a finger beckoned. The inspector hurried over to the crate. Inside it a hoarse voice whispered: "Thirst, thirst." When police broke open the crate a young, dirty-bearded man, too weak even to stand, fell out into their arms...
Inge Borkh, 33, who sings at the Hamburg and Munich operas, may never be compared to a movie beauty, but her big, dramatic voice and commanding presence fascinated audiences. In the gruesome role of Salome, she slunk, crouched and snarled until it almost seemed as if she were going to bite off the head of John the Baptist before it was cut off for her, but at the end, she tamed her style, let the music have its say. Her singing was as compelling as her acting, her voice easily soaring out over Strauss's heavy orchestration...
...Hamburg (pop. 1,600,000), a strike of 13,000 transport and utilities workers left West Germany's largest city without gas, water, buses and streetcars for nine days. In Bavaria, 130,000 metal workers downed tools. Nine hundred thousand Ruhr metal workers demanded a 10-pfennig (2.5?) hourly increase...
...AMERICAN World Airways hopes to cash in on West Germany's fabulous economic revival by starting direct flights between Berlin and New York. Scheduled time is 17 hrs., 11 min., including stops at Hamburg, Prestwick Airport, Scotland, and occasionally Gander, Nfld. Fare...
WORLD'S BIGGEST TANKER, the 47,000-ton Al-Malik Saud Al-Awal, has been launched in Hamburg, Germany for Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, who recently made a deal with Arabia's King Saud to transport about 10% of the country's oil in his tankers (TIME, Feb. 22). Though world shippers have protested that the deal will eventually give Onassis a monopoly in carrying Arabian oil, Onassis plans to go ahead, will use his $6,000,000 giant to ship oil to European markets...