Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rossia, something of a seagoing refugee herself, has sailed under three flags in eight years. Built at Hamburg in 1938 as the German Patria, she was taken over by the Allies at Flensburg in May 1945, used as living quarters for a SHAEF mission, then became the British Empire Welland. In an allocation of tonnage between the Big Powers, she passed to Russia this year...
...first Jewish entertainers to make a postwar hit. Her audience, which had followed her from the Femina Club to the Kabarett der Komiker, heard her intone: "Come back, come back, I am waiting for you, for you are my happiness" and "Under the red lantern of St. Pauli [in Hamburg's famed red-light district] my girl stands waiting...
...denying the report of an increase in the price of a ham sandwich, the manager of Hazen's pointed out that ham prices had gone up less than beef but that customers, particularly at night, demanded hamburg. If customers asked for the less-costly product, he said he would not buy the more costly...
When that midnight-snacker pays an extra nickel for a hamburger seven times a week, he is only buying a little time for that thirty-five cents. No great load of hamburg will ever be dumped on the market as long as cattle-raisers have reason to expect greater profits by holding off. By refusing to pay for the luxury of immediate delivery, by making it a point to get by only on cheaper products through trade with more conscientious merchants, today's customers will find their coffers lined with more than cobwebs when tomorrow's sunnier hours arrive...
...British had issued a housing eviction order to make room for a new Military Government Headquarters. Hamburgers dispatched a delegation of six women to see Hamburg's dignified Oberbürgermeister Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, and plead with him to intervene with British authorities...