Word: hamburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned into a courtroom, while British and German lawyers argued whether he was a criminal or just an officer who had done his duty...
After four years in British custody without trial, Manstein was finally brought before a British military tribunal in Hamburg last August. Britons raised a ?1,620 fund to help pay for his defense; Winston Churchill contributed...
Boss of the new organization is plump, pink-cheeked General Secretary Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said...
...rubble-choked streets. Even if it reached the fires, it would have no water to fight with: broken pipes would have reduced the pressure in the mains to near zero. The roaring flames, perhaps stirring up a "fire storm" as they did at a standard-bomb assault on Hamburg, would kill many people missed by the bomb itself...
...Kreutzer has demonstrated his electronic fish-catcher at Hamburg, and has convinced many commercial fishermen that it will revolutionize their business. One practical way to use it would be to draw fish into the path of a towed...