Word: benz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when he was 15, designed his first plane in 1916, became chief engineer of Bayerische Flugzengwerke at Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved lacking in maneuverability...
Senator Mihai's star birthday present was an $18,000 Mercedes-Benz sport car capable of 115 m.p.h. King Carol also gave Mihai's girl friend a decoration. The Order of Cultural Merit went to Helen Malxa, attractive and always well-chaperoned daughter of one of Rumania's richest industrialists. Anxious to damp scandal, Court functionaries maintained last week that the "platonic summer romance" of Mihai and Helen is now over. A few months ago they claimed that "His Royal Highness and Miss Malxa have never...
...attack. Bombers do the damage; other planes simply find and clear the way. Main requirements of bombers are speed, range, capacity. Germany's Dornier Do. 17 and Heinkel He. 111 combine these talents admirably. The slender Do. 17, equipped with two liquid-cooled, streamlined, inverted-V Daimler-Benz engines, can lug one ton of bombs 1,500 miles at nearly 300 miles an hour; and the Heinkel, produced at Germany's model factory at Oranienburg (where duplicate machinery is set up underground, where workers live like prep-school boys), can carry the same load almost as fast...
...wedding gifts poured in, it was evident that the international implications had not been overlooked-from Adolf Hitler came a sporty Mercedes-Benz; from Mussolini four bronze vases that once belonged to Napoleon; a statue of a dragon from King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy; Oriental rugs from Dictator Metaxas' Greek Government; and an elaborate secretary from Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco...
...seen at the German Chancellery, into which flowed truckloads of gifts from ecstatic admirers. Der Führer received tons of flowers, hundreds of cakes, a set of phonograph records of Anschluss speeches, a set of foreign translations of Mein Kampf, a lion cub, the 500,000th Daimler-Benz car, a portrait of the late General Erich Ludendorff and numerous cradles, baby carriages, and babies' clothes "from the provinces"-i. e., from provincial families still unaware that the man who so often appeals to German mothers for more and better children is a bachelor...