Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complete Boiler Plant. The apparatus also handles sabotage and espionage, spreading discontent, and setting off occasional riots among the West Germans. But its prime project is illegal trade-to use the U.S.-supported industrial economy of Western Germany as an arsenal for Communism. West Germans are forbidden to sell arms, munitions-making machinery and important strategic items to Red territory. But many West Germans have been skirting the ban. During the first six months of the Korean war, West German trade with Communist China jumped 2,700%; iron & steel exports to the Chinese Reds alone went from nearly zero...
...West Germans managed to slip more than $74 million of strategic materials into the Soviet zone on an ostensibly "legal" basis, with the help of phony invoices, bribed or lax custom guards, intricate shipping techniques. On one occasion, 89 separate pieces of machinery were passed through West German custom guards; reassembled on the other side, they turned out to be a complete boiler factory. Other supplies move through "triangular trade"-a West German industrialist will ship a smelting plant, for example, to Belgium and from there it will be shipped to East Germany. In addition to this "legal" trade...
Like Mushrooms. Ernst Wollweber and the German Communist movement grew up together. The son of a Silesian miner who was killed in World War I, he went to work as a stevedore in his teens. He joined the German Communist Party on the day it was formed, 32 years ago. In the dank darkness of the Communist underground, Wollweber's peculiar talents sprouted like mushrooms. He was shrewd and quick-minded, capable of great courage and matchless brutality, a man capable of believing himself when he snarled, as he often did to a wavering follower: "Death is easy." During...
...years before World War II, Germans are offering more flexible credit terms than their competitors. "Americans often display a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward their latino customers," explained a German in Lima. "We don't. We plan to treat them better than we treat our customers at home...
...explained that a kidney punch is illegal in Germany, adding: "I have to call it a foul. I want to leave the ring alive." When Robinson flattened Hecht again, after an impromptu, one-minute rest period, he soon found out what the referee meant-and learned a little about German boxing fans. Angrily taking up the cry of foul, the crowd filled the air with a barrage of pebbles, pop bottles and seat cushions that sent Robinson scurrying for cover with an escort of 20 cops. Not until he had escaped from Berlin aboard a U.S. military train for Frankfurt...