Word: neue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to run. Finally, Adenauer got reluctant assent to run from his obscure Minister of Agriculture, the 64-year-old Heinrich Lübke, a Roman Catholic like Adenauer. Liübke has a clean prewar record-he was jailed by Hitler-and is generally popular, although, as the Neue Rhein Zeitung put it: "Until now, his name has been mentioned mainly in relation to the price of butter and the hog surplus...
...streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung gingerly suggested that chaos might not inevitably follow female suffrage since "the character of the Swiss woman does not point to extravagance...
Among the prosperous Swiss, too, "wait-and-see has replaced the boom mentality," reports the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which forecast a 15% drop in industrial building projects for this year...
Most universal sentiment was satisfaction that the U.S. had bowed gracefully to its allies' views, though the expression of that satisfaction varied from spiteful to appreciative. Gloated the pro-government Frankfurter Neue Presse: "The conference turned into an uprising of the continental Europeans against ... the U.S." In more balanced appraisal, London's News Chronicle reported with quiet satisfaction that "the European tail has wagged the American dog to a new and unprecedented degree...
...three thriving dailies and two Sunday papers with total circulation of more than five million. They reach their readers in editions published from teletype-linked plants in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt and Munich. Springer also publishes five magazines (total circ. 4,680,000) that range from the weekly Das Neue Blatt, a sex-spiced gossip sheet, to Hör zu! (Listen!), a TV-radio weekly whose 2,600,000 sales top all other German magazines...