Word: pfenniger
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...sabotaging tactics of his pfennig-pinching Economy Minister Fritz Schaffer by negotiating an agreement to pay $260 million in support of U.S. troops in Germany...
...most prosperous country in Europe, West Germany has refused to contribute more than 5.5% of its swelling gross national product to its own defense. Britain, despite inflationary troubles, contributes 10.1%, the U.S. 11.6%. ¶ Despite its failure to build its own army, West Germany, in the person of pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, for months refused flatly to continue its cash contributions to the support of Allied troops in Germany. ¶ West Germany is receiving $1 billion worth of arms from the U.S. as a gift-but the only comments heard are complaints that the arms are obsolete...
...West's newest ally, West Germany, was making a most disagreeable impression on its friends last week. Chiefly responsible was crabbed, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer. Schäffer was flatly unwilling to pay what Germany's NATO partners consider a fair share of Western defense...
West Germany, nine months after receiving its sovereignty, had not yet passed even a conscription law, has only 900 volunteers actually in training. Its pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Schaefer protests that the most prosperous country in Europe can only afford a modest $2 billion a year for the new army...
Nowhere (not even in the bureaucratic honeycombs of Washington, D.C.) is the balance between pay, position, privilege and office furniture so carefully monitored as it is in West Germany's orderly civil service. Last week, Adenauer's pfennig-pinching Minister of Finance Fritz Schaffer issued a directive to spell the whole thing out in precise. Teutonic detail. Herr Schaffer decreed a maximum expenditure of $60 to furnish a typist's office, $140 for "experts working in special fields," and about $285 for the office appointments of a department head...