Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...vigorous Fiorello LaGuardia tradition, Max Brauer was a good mayor. Pointing to reborn Hamburg, he trumpeted: "My administration has done this. I intend to stay." But this week 66-year-old Max Brauer was out of the Rathaus. In local municipal elections to choose the 120-man Hamburg State Assembly, which in turn selects the mayor, a four-party conservative bloc inched out Brauer's Social Democrats. The coalition won 50% of the vote, and 62 Assembly seats to the Socialists...
...district, and his party as a whole considerably bettered its vote over the September general elections, he fell to the nationwide conservative swing to Konrad Adenauer. Scheduled to replace Brauer as mayor is his former executive assistant, Dr. Kurt Sieveking, 56. Patrician Sieveking, whose family name is the Hamburg equivalent of Lodge or Cabot in Boston, is currently West Germany's minister to Sweden...
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...