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...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...
...Modern Caesar" was the title conferred on Adolf Hitler last week by the world press, which always ennobles with a cliche. This Caesar's chariot of triumph was his usual big black Mercedes-Benz, and as usual he rode beside his chauffeur, entering his native Austria amid a two-mile long procession of German Army & Storm Troops, with six tanks leading the way, and German bombers blacking...
Adolf Hitler: a Mercedes-Benz sport coupe...
...hero. Then suddenly a radio station of Italy's new "bosom friend" Germany made an announcement. With great satisfaction in a matter "particularly interesting," Berlin announced that Flight Captain Gerhard Nitschke, 32-year-old chief pilot of the Heinkel Airplane Works, had just flown a two-motored Heinkel-Benz airplane 621 miles, with a payload of 2,204 lb-(1,000 kg.) at a speed of 313 m.p.h.-46 m.p.h. faster than young Mussolini's record for the same weight at the same distance; leaving Bruno for the moment with only...
...lines fell from the bow. A trained squad of Navy men grabbed one, a squad of civilians the other. Gently the two groups began coaxing the big bag to the mooring mast. The breeze teasing the tail made it more difficult than usual. Captain Pruss put the two Mercedes-Benz Diesel engines in the stern gondolas into reverse to keep from overshooting the mast. Witnesses noticed that the port motor was backfiring...