Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process they killed upward of 1,500 noncombatants. The Nazi ships were mostly big Heinkels, unaccompanied by pursuit escorts. Germany admitted losing 21 planes to Polish counterattack by pursuits and antiaircraft. They claimed to have massacred more than half of a 47-plane Polish squadron which tried to bomb Berlin...
...gave $7,500,000 for a research institute, $100,000 for antiaircraft batteries to defend Stockholm. The Bofors Co., which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
What the museums of Berlin and Vienna, Rome and Florence were doing, nobody troubled to inquire. But FORTUNE disclosed last week that Vatican City, Europe's smallest nation, had not forgotten war. Unprotected stood its lovely frescoes and its statuary; but the Vatican has bombproof shelters underground...
...will see a Russian-German tie-up, or Russia will retire to her fastnesses," and the New York Time's Walter Duranty wrote: "There is no reason to believe that Russia would refuse collaboration with Germany." On January 18 the Daily News Syndicate reported from London that Berlin was envisaging economic and military collaboration with Russia, and week later the London Daily Herald warned that "There is reason to think that its objects are political rather than commercial." On May 6, the New York Times'?, Berlin correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, forecast the agreement in detail. Soon after that...
Wagner: Die Walkure, Act 2 (Berlin State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Bruno Seidler-Winkler and Bruno Walter conducting, with Lotte Lehmann, Marta Fuchs, Margaret Klose, Lauritz Melchoir and Hans Hotter; Victor: 20 sides). Austria's Anschluss in 1938 interrupted a magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile...