Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West German trade experts stepped out of an airliner this week at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport. Their mission: to negotiate a new trade agreement with Argentina. Said Dr. Günter Seeliger, the mission chief: "It will not be double the old [$132 million] agreement, but we hope it will be a good deal larger...
...German iron & steel, machinery, chemicals, cameras and harmonicas. There is a possibility that this year Germany may nose ahead of Britain as No. 2 exporter to Latin America (No. 1: the U.S., with $3 billion a year...
Latin Americans are rediscovering German thoroughness. "Our correspondence is answered promptly in correct Spanish," reports a pleased Caracas merchant. "German salesmen are technicians who not only know what is in the catalogue but how to dismantle and reassemble every item. If there is any difficulty with any piece of equipment it is replaced immediately without question...
...German Communist press, which knows a plug when it sees one, joyously spread Mann's panegyric to Becher across its front pages. In Pacific Palisades, Calif., where Mann, now a U.S. citizen, is completing a new novel, his wife explained that her husband does not share Becher's political views but "is convinced of Mr. Becher's idealism." Said Daughter Erika: "Father feels badly that it is not possible to write a letter to a man any more without stirring up this kind of thing...
...bearded one, no mean storyteller, gave a detailed account to Poland's Communist authorities, generally no mean storytellers themselves: during the German retreat in 1945, he and five other German soldiers had been looting the store, when German demolition bombs destroyed its entrance and entombed them. Two of the trapped men committed suicide; another two died. The two remaining buried their comrades in piles of flour, lived on the vast stores of food in the bunker, washed in schnapps to conserve the small supply of water which seeped through cracks in the concrete walls. When Polish workers cleared...