Word: hansa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swakopmund. "Its buildings might have been lifted bodily from any small north German seaside town: its hotels-the Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are still wearing their blue German peaked caps, the schoolboys, their green or red caps with gold braid...
...vessels used to lie off Basra port in the Persian Gulf, waiting for the packers to send out the first full cargoes of dates. Within a few hours of each other they would get away in the annual race for New York. Usually a British Strick and a German Hansa liner vied for the lead; first one in with his 5,000 tons of dates got a premium of about $1.75 per ton. And Hills Brothers, biggest U.S. date importer (Dromedary), gave a handsome loving cup to the winning captain...