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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--Waves of British bombers tonight smashed savagely at Adolf Hitler's "invasion ports" all along the Channel coast in what appeared to be an assault of unprecedented violence shortly after Nazi "Big Bertha" guns had shelled Dover...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/11/1940 | See Source »

GOLD COMES IN BRICKS-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Alta Ashbury wrote $10,000 checks to "Cash." Ultimately her rich papa got Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to look into a matter of blackmail seasoned with murder. Donald, a little, disbarred lawyer whom women adore, even outsmarts Hashita, his jujitsu teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Murders | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Filed in New York Surrogate's Court was the will of slick little Max David Steuer, late famed millionaire criminal lawyer and Tammanyman. More like a chatty, affectionate family letter than a will, it named Wife Bertha P. Steuer chief beneficiary, bequeathed her $60,000 a year, gave equal parts of one-half the estate's remaining income to his three children. Excerpts: "My grandchildren-God bless them all-who have been such a joy to me, may deem it strange that no bequest is herein made to them. I have each one of them in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 16, 1940 | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...Died. Bertha Muzzy Bower, 68, author of 68 two-fisted Western novels (most famous: Chip of the Flying U), who as B. M. Bower concealed her sex from many an avid reader; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 5, 1940 | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Almost all artillery that depends upon secrecy of location for effectiveness may be thrown out of use by Leet's development. The position of Germany's Big Bertha during the World War was jealously guarded, but it could now be mapped before two shots had been fired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enemy Gun Batteries Can Be Located By Adapted Seismograph, Leet Finds | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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