Word: hamburgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, they learned, the racketeers had used passports stolen from the Passport Office. The blank books were smuggled into Belgium, "validated" with a forged Foreign Office stamp, then sold to the highest bidders in Paris, Hamburg or Munich. When demand swamped supply, George and his associates hit on another scheme. Over many a pint in Glasgow pubs, they asked local folk to hand over their identity cards "to help a friend who wants to get to Eire." For a fiver, hundreds of Glaswegians did so. The card details, plus photographs of D.P. clients, were then used in filling out passport...
...London, it tried, although it failed, to reach its absolute climax. In the cities of the world, people raised their awed faces to the skies while air power thundered over Manila, Singapore, Sevastopol, Cologne, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, air power very nearly did reach its final aim of total annihilation; in those two cities, 125,000 Japanese perished in two clock ticks...
Friedrich Chrysander ran a pickle factory on the side. But for years he lived on little more than rolls and water, and his wife sold flowers in the Hamburg market, to scrape together enough money to finance his life's work. It was to make a complete edition of Composer George Frederick Handel's works. Chrysander died in 1901, with the job far from done...
American occupation personnel, particularly in civil government, is feeling very low in morale. It is embarrassing, humiliating, and frustrating to have to face up to their German contacts. . . . The Marshall demurral came only as an after-fact. There was no advance reminder from General Clay that the Hamburg docking would be a purely British undertaking; so that even technically the Americans were in no way defended for the record...
Before long, the reporters at Hamburg began getting frantic "call-backs" from their home offices. On both sides of the Atlantic, editors wanted to know which version of the facts was right. A lively argument ensued: the Americans accused the British of playing the story down, and the British accused the Americans of whooping...