Word: seebohm
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Died. Hans-Christoph Seebohm, 64, longtime (1949-66) West German Transport Minister; of a lung clot; in Bonn. As a public servant, Seebohm swiftly rebuilt and expanded Germany's war-ravaged railroads, autobahns, ports and waterways. As a politician, he was signally less successful. His incessant clamor for the return of the Sudeten-land-yielded to Hitler in 1938 and handed back to Czechoslovakia in 1945 -was a constant embarrassment to the Bonn government...
...materials, 27% of the country's total freight traffic. Germany's 7,600 barges carry more total tonnage than those of any other European country (though the neighboring Netherlands transports 66% of its internal commerce by water). This week in Hannover, Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm will sign an agreement that calls for the greatest single development of Germany's waterways since World War II: a $750 million, 20-year expansion and modernization program to be financed two-thirds by the federal government, one-third by the states...