Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian nightclub shows (uncensored). Throughout the rest of Western Europe, television is still in its infancy. The Netherlands has an experimental transmitter at Eindhoven; Germany plans one in the British zone at Hamburg...
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...
...slaves, on whom they inflicted unspeakable brutalities. The English in Australia carried extermination even further ... a good deal of it by the simple use of arsenic, though there were other ways, more horrible and straightforward . . . Some of the English achievements in the late war, notably the burning of Hamburg, make the blood run cold...
...there the town meeting agreed to contribute four freight cars of grain, dried fish and fresh vegetables to be flown to Berlin. All over Western Germany, much the same thing was happening. Russia's brutal siege of Berlin had shaken Western Germany out of a surly indifference. In Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, local governments passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead. "We weren't at all sure before...
...words left his mouth, the police call box rang. The sergeant took the phone, and policemen nutraculousy began to appear from doorways all the way down Mt. Auburn Street. A squad of six collected and tramped off to quell a piot in a local all-night hamburg emporium...