Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon Californians heard how Fraulein Stinnes had set out from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...
...Intermezzo of Valse leute d. Cortege de Bacchus Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner Funeral Music of Stegfried from "The Dusk of the Gods" Wagner Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner Suite from "Carmen" Wagner a. Intermezzo b. The Dragoons of Alcala c. Prelude to Act 1 Russian Lullaby Berlin March, "Lorraine" Ganne
Meanwhile Science sent huge trimotored Lufthansa planes roaring from Berlin to Hamburg laden with effective gas masks and phosgene fighting equipment. They were not too late to save many lives; but the Death toll stood already at 11, with over 200 patients in hospitals. In that black hour, at Hamburg, shuddering, hysterical thousands thought of THE NEXT...
...Berlin the German War Ministry would make absolutely no statement, and a few Paris journals clamored for a League of Nations investigation to determine whether Germany is making more phosgene for commercial purposes than is permitted by the Allies. At Hamburg no action was taken, last week, against Herr Stolzenberg, whom officials seemed to think had a proper title to his gas wherever he got it. It would have been, they said, perfectly legal for him to buy leftover Army phosgene. With apparent sincerity Big Gas Man Stolzenberg declared that he would cooperate with the experts in destroying or neutralizing...
...thousand excited Germans sat beside Berlin's famed Avis Speedway one day last week, and listened to a lecture on rockets. The lecturer was Fritz von Opel, motor magnate. Beside him stood a little racing car with two unusual accessories. In its rear it had something that looked like an exaggerated exhaust pipe. This, explained Herr von Opel, was a chamber for the explosion of rockets, the car's only means of locomotion. The other feature was a pair of little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel...