Word: vogel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christian Vogel, pale and tired, climbed the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in Offenbach, an industrial suburb of Frankfurt. Silently he tossed a blue envelope on the table. His seven-year-old daughter looked puzzled. "Was ist los, Mutti?" she asked. Said her mother: "Dein Vater ist entlassen" (Your father is fired...
Profit Margins. In the electrical plant where he worked, Christian Vogel made 280 marks ($66) a month, a little more than the average for industrial workers...
...Bonn government has started encouraging merchants to defy the trade associations; last week many West German stores held their first bargain sales since 1939. The rush was so great that police had to be called to keep order. Results indicated that hope for Christian Vogel and his fellow unemployed might lie in an economy freed of the shackles of government and rapacious private enterprise...