Word: benz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riding in a Mercedes Benz. A two-and-a-half-ton truck followed, with a month's supply of food, quantities of clothing and jewelry...
...down 9,000 acres of trees they could no longer afford to spray, and went so terribly in the red that the average debt was $750 per acre. But by 1941 prices went up; the demand for Wenatchee's luxury apples was brisk. That fall, when Shipper Reuben Benz wangled a freight reduction, the growers were riding so high that they gave him 3,100 silver dollars, trundled into a banquet room in a wheelbarrow...
...appointed day, in the big, black Mercédés-Benz given him by Hitler, the Caudillo slid down the Puerta del Sol and Carrera de San Jerónimo. In the Puerta del Sol. he was greeted by trumpeters, and again in front of the Cortes...
...city where, in the heyday of the Nazi Party's rise to world power, the Auslandsdeutschen-Germans living abroad-met each year to plan their fifth-column tactics. Last week a half hour's raid left extensive areas of Stuttgart afire, presumably including the Daimler-Benz motor plants, the Bosch ignition works, the mass-production auto factory of Opel and many other war-important industries...
...drives the P-38, the P39 and the P-40. Its development was late in starting and was carried on under great difficulties. It has not yet caught up with its opposite numbers, Britain's Rolls-Royce (also being manufactured in this country) and Germany's Daimler-Benz...