Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers captured by the Russians at Stalingrad and elsewhere. Its most publicized leaders were Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who commanded the German armies at Stalingrad; General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the German LI Army Corps at Stalingrad; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck...
This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia. Bismarck had laid it down as a political maxim that "whoever controls Bohemia controls Europe. " It was almost as axiomatic that whatever strong power controlled Silesia controlled Prussia...
Working as smoothly as their smooth, new planes, the Forty-niners played an important part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. They flew over the Owen Stanley mountains, strafed and dive-bombed on missions of their own, escorted heavy bombers, gave valuable support to ground troops all up the New Guinea coast...
Since he joined Northwest back in 1932 as traffic manager, Hunter has done things in a hurry. He rose to be vice president and general manager within a year, then helped push the line into big-league operations by extending its routes west from Bismarck, N.D. to Seattle and Portland. Traffic was light. In some years, mail subsidies were 60% of Northwest's revenues. But Hunter made a reputation of flying his planes through bad weather-and over mountainous terrain-on schedule. Northwest also flew without a fatal passenger accident until construction bugs in their new Lockheed 14s spoiled...
...Hundred Years); in London. An Oxford (Balliol College) brilliant (he was president of the Union [Debating] Society, testing ground of many a Prime Minister), swart, slick-haired Guedalla wrote biographies as brilliantined as his conversation, admired the tawry grandeur of the age he mocked best: the era of Bismarck and Napoleon III. His definition of biography: "a region that is bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium...