Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship neared Europe a wireless message came telling him to proceed to Bremen. There an engineer from the Artiglio II gave him minute descriptions of two safes to be opened by divers 400 ft. below the surface. A third had been opened with an acetylene torch, damaging the contents. Courtney gave the engineer a "template" (outline pattern) of what the lock probably was like, where it should be drilled. His templates opened one safe, failed on the other until he had flown to Calais and drawn another. His employers told him to come back in August when there would...
...cabin-class bracket with slightly higher fare. Similarly when the German speed ships were introduced their first-class fares were forced above the "No. 1" bracket of first-class liners into an especially created "A" bracket. On her maiden voyage the Champlain averaged 19½ knots, but like the Bremen and Europa has speed in reserve to meet competition from faster ships of her class when they are built...
Director Alfred E. Green has used specific properties-New York's Club Lido, the 5. S. Bremen. The famed tooth-pick-against-bedroom-door trick used by Kentucky detectives at Theodore Dreiser's expense (TIME, Nov. 23) is borrowed with a hairpin variation...
...Frankfurt, simple modern tenements are housing poor people. Nor is the use confined to business buildings or residences. A newspaper plant, a grain elevator, and a paper mill have invested in modern buildings. Einstein's laboratory, a Paris garage, a dentist's office and many salons of the S.S. Bremen have adopted the new fashion...
...horses at Aintree next year. Preparing for this year's Grand National on March 18, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, affable young vice president of Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and nephew of Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, last week packed his bags in Manhattan to sail for England on the Bremen. Waiting for him there were his two Grand National entries, Alike and Glangesia. Alike won one of the Grand National trials a year ago but finished the race far back in the field, while Glangesia came in seventh. Glangesia, a 12-year-old Irish horse, ridden by his Irish jockey...