Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before 1950 was over, the black, red and gold flag of the West German Federal Republic would fly from masts on the seven seas. Commenting on the amazingly swift change in Hamburg's mood, a Hamburg-Amerika Line official said: "I guess that we just decided we'd been in the restaurant business long enough...
Tired Restaurateurs. Last week hope bloomed in Hamburg. Lord Mayor Max Brauer was home from a six-week visit to the U.S., where he had seen Secretary of State Dean Acheson and talked with investment bankers. "From all I could gather," he told fellow Hamburgers, "restrictions on German shipbuilding will be lifted very soon, certainly...
...scholarship to Chicago's Art Institute. In 1929 he quit school to start cartooning on the Chicago Daily News, later moved to Cleveland and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1941, Herblock drew the cartoon for N.E.A. that won him a Pulitzer: a German soldier searching the sky for a British bomber while Parisians look on and grin...
...destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II); after long illness; in Salzburg, Austria. Gustav Halbach, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, changed his name when he married Bertha Krupp, heiress to the huge Ruhr steel and ammunition works. In World War I he built the famed long-range German cannon that bombarded Paris (the Allies called it "Big Bertha" after his wife). An early supporter of Hitler, he was indicted as a top war criminal, escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile...
...Later on, the German camp authorities became less efficient. In March 1944, using a patiently dug tunnel, some 80 P.O.W.s crushed out of Stalag-Luft III in a single night. Yet only a few escaped from Nazi territory. Of those recaptured, the Germans reported they shot...