Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord. To prepare the Hamburg Radio Chorus for the taxing job of staying on pitch while unaccompanied, Conductor Robert Craft rehearsed the group more than 20 times...
...week later, at Hamburg, the lightweights did not do so well against stiff Continental competition. An unfamiliar boat and a strange course hampered the crew. But the important victory had been gained. For the fifteenth time in the last seventeen years, an American crew toted home the yard-high Thames Challenge Cup, established just 90 years...
Lines that were out of business started up again, new ones were organized. The owner of Germany's Hanseatic is the new transatlantic Hamburg-Atlantic Line, which was formed in 1957, paid out $3,000,000 for the 28-year-old Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland. The Hanseatic was completely refurbished (sixth deck, new aluminum superstructure, new stacks) in Hamburg's Howaldtswerke yard by 2,000 artisans who worked around the clock to finish it in six months...
Last week the German press lifted the well-kept secret of the Hanseatic's financial backers, revealed that the Hamburg-Atlantic Line is 60% owned by Greek Shipper Nicos Vernicos-Eugenides, president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic carriers, and 40% owned by wealthy German Cigarette Maker Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered...
...Though Hamburg-Atlantic is moving fast on Atlantic sealanes, the wonder boy of German shipping is a handsome, lean, baking-powder scion named Rudolf August Oetker, who started from scratch and now surpasses both Hamburg-American and its fellow giant, North German Lloyd. Taking advantage of the government tax law (which was repealed 3^ years ago), Oetker invested his big baking-powder profits in shipping. Oetker today controls the largest single German merchant fleet in terms of tonnage, consisting of 40 modern freighters and tankers totaling 375,000 tons...