Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of western Germany have turned a big corner. Six months ago, stagnation was still everywhere; today, from the Elbe to the Rhine, everything is in motion. Ponderous blocks of new building bulk cleanly amid the jagged skylines. In Hamburg, Frankfurt and Essen, brick red factory construction and flashy white housing projects chase the gloom of rubble grey. The ruins no longer depress, but act as a stimulant to German energy. A Hamburg shipping magnate curtly told me why: "If I don't get something done, I'll go crazy. That's sure. A war may take...
...Hamburg captains dressed their ships in gay signal flags, beaming teachers gave school kids the day off. The cause for rejoicing was a letter from the Allied High Commission which lifted several restrictions on shipbuilding. German ships up to last week could not be larger than 7,200 tons or faster than 12 knots. Now Germans can have ships as big and as fast as they want, although a limit on overall tonnage remains. (Within two days North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika ordered 14 new 16-knot vessels...
...Hamburg. No one who has observed Acheson under the attacks of his critics and the stresses of his job during the past year can fail to admire his steady, cold-steel nerve. He has held himself aloof from the brawling. His staff know him as calm, sane, considerate. He has generally kept his sense of humor in a turbulent world, sometimes opens a window on a frosty...
...Cape & Hamburg. Up to that point, even Puerto Rican police had no real conception of the Nationalists' full, fanatic plans. They had begun to look on sickly, yanqui-hating Pedro Albizu Campos as no more than a noisy reminder of the days when "independence" was the rallying cry of all diehard Caribbean extremists. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his father's Negro mistress, he had gone to Harvard ('16), returned to Puerto Rico embittered by a World War I hitch in a Puerto Rican Negro regiment...
...Communists were more successful in Hamburg, where 3,000 Reds managed to stage a noisy demonstration before they were stopped by police. Sixteen policemen were injured...