Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newcomer among U. S. synthetics is German Buna, now used on more than 40% of Germany's tired vehicles. Licensed by Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) to Firestone and U. S. Rubber, Buna is soon to be produced in a new Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana plant at Baton Rouge...
...battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral Erich Raeder with a new Nazi Fleet, of pocket battleships and modern submarines, raiding and taking daring risks to cover German landings in Norway. The German naval tradition is all crammed into 42 years...
...amateurs who supposed, as many do, that all they had to do was keep time with the orchestra got a quick awakening. If they omitted the conventional opening down beat of the baton, Sammy Kaye's men kept mum. The orchestra played exactly as fast or slow as the stick-waver indicated, however unintentionally. If a saxophone or trombone thought he saw a signal to come in, he did so regardless-with the result that periodically everything broke down...
...wore a double-breasted, grey field uniform with the Iron Cross hanging from his left breast pocket. Behind him walked the six highest officials of the German Third Reich: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral of the Fleet Erich Raeder in a blue naval uniform and upturned stiff collar, also carrying a baton; Deputy...
...Europe, the CBS bureau, supervised by smart Paul White in New York, now employs eight full-time correspondents, has four stringmen on tap for special assignments. From London, the bureau's European chief, Edward Murrow, onetime president of the National Student Federation of America, wields an efficient baton over this radio symphony. Among stars that he commands are Thomas Grandin, who patrolled Columbia's Paris beat, and William L. Shirer, whose talks from Berlin have established him as the ablest newscaster of them all. Roving assistants to Grandin in Paris were Eric Sevareid, once editor of the Paris...