Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipments of cars abroad 45% greater than in the first six months of 1932, its shipments for June 127% greater than in June a year ago. And the increase of the company's foreign sales affected its English-made Vauxhall and Bedford cars, its German-made Opel and Blitz cars as well as its U. S. products. A further hint, not yet statistically confirmed, that automobile buying is returning to normal is in the percentage of cars sold on instalments. In a normal year 60% to 65% of all new cars are sold on instalments. The National Association...
...Kikeriki!" "Comrades!" roared Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler as the Reichstag convened, "Do you know that working men are being clubbed to the ground outside this building? Donner und Blitz! What a way for this Reichstag to open!" In mass formation, with military tread, eyes front, the 107 new Fascist Deputies entered the Reichstag. When it last met they numbered twelve. Flushed with their great election victory (TIME, Sept. 22) they marched in coatless, each swelling out his Fascist "brown shirt," each flaunting the Fascist swastika on his left arm, each in khaki flare-pants, swank black leather boots-all proud...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...