Word: regensburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny (10 h.p.) engine, hooked up to the single rear wheel. But it was no toy. It could carry three passengers at a 'top speed of 60 m.p.h., could go 94 miles on a gallon of gasoline. The price: $869 to $998. The maker: the Messerschmitt Works of Regensburg, West Germany...
Runabout. At Regensburg, Germany, Willy Messerschmitt, who designed Germany's famed fighter planes in World War II, began turning out a three-wheeled, 342 pound automobile on a motor scooter chassis. Only 9½ ft. long, 48 in. wide and 47 in. high, it can do 40 m.p.h., run 75 miles on a gallon of gas. The Kleinwagen has two seats in tandem, no space for baggage. Price: about...
...Scott's talks during the summer were delivered in German. Once, he started by speaking in English before a meeting of local dignitaries-including the mayor-of the town of Regensburg. When he discovered that many members of his audience hadn't understood a word, he repeated the talk in German. Another talk was given in Russian, to a group of Russian refugees for whom a radio station is being set up in Munich to beam its broadcasts to the peoples of Russia. At the time Scott spoke, the project was stalemated because of differences among the refugees...
...Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...