Word: dortmunder
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...this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions manufacture...
...With what right do others accuse us of a breach of treaty?" was General Hermann Wilhelm Göring's contribution to Nazi electioneering at Dortmund. "The world cannot condemn us. We Germans alone have the right to judge our own actions! By its ballots the German people will deliver judgment on March...
...streets last week. Stabbed, a Hamburg policeman died after two nights of agony. Stabbed in the heart at Essen, a young Fascist died on the spot Meanwhile in Cologne police beat off Fascists who bludgeoned them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow." Policemen walked their beats in pairs...
...Communist-Fascist riots broke out in Dortmund. Two Communists were killed, one policeman was gravely wounded. Charging schupos captured 30 prisoners...
...Dortmund, Germany, Friedrich Sheller coldly eyed his 14-year-old Gertrude's new hair bob, led her to a barber, seized clippers, adjusted them to half a millimetre, grunted, "Let's do it thoroughly," sheared her poll...