Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them uninterruptedly across Europe and Asia. Longest (preWar) run under Wagons-Lits auspices was Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Irkutsk-Yladivostok. 7,800 miles. Bolsheviks stole all Wagons-Lits cars on which they could lay their hands, and still operate them. Germany operates more of her own sleeping cars than any other continental power. But Wagons-Lits expresses such as the "Nord Express" roar nightly over the Paris...
...Orient Express" most Europeans mean loosely any one of several interconnecting trains which link Paris and Berlin with Athens, Istanbul and Bucharest across a middle zone comprising Vienna, Venice, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia. Of these interconnecting Grands Express the most typical is the Simplon Orient Express on which it costs $171 First Class and $121 Second (there is no third) to span the 1.886 miles between Paris and Istanbul in 2½ days. Including all stops and fooling around at eight frontiers, the Simplon Orient nonetheless averages 30 m.p.h...
Last week the Realmleader's own news-organ Volkischer Beobachter, which Germans have been buying on the theory that if all they could get was Nazi propaganda they might as well get it from the source, was withering too, had dropped to second place in Berlin circulation behind the Jewish-founded Morgenpost of Ullstein...
...Berlin, the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment promptly pointed out that Realmleader Hitler, in designating Lithuania as the only nation he will not promise not to invade at the moment, added that "after the Memel question is settled" he will be willing to sign a pact of non-aggression with Lithuania...
Married. General Hermann Wilhelm Coring, 42, Premier of Prussia; and Emmy Sonnemann, 37, actress; in Berlin...