Word: tiefenbrunn
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...high Bavarian crag 45 minutes by motor from the nearest railway station perches Tiefenbrunn, the estate of cleft-nosed Dr. Kurt Schmitt. The view from his bedroom window is scarcely rivaled in all Bavaria. In bed last week with a telephone at his elbow the German Economics Minister was struggling with a strangling crisis in the Fatherland's economic life...
...Mountain of Mahogany." The bedside telephone in Tiefenbrunn is linked by direct wire with a huge grey stone building on Unter den Linden in which tourists used to cash their letters of credit, dazzled by the splendiferous luxury of Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...
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