Word: burgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOSEPH BURGER New York City...
Shoe-Builder Burger received over a column program credit in the Oct. 23 issue of the New Yorker...
...publicity committee is Steelman Ernest Weir, but the active publicity director is a onetime reporter named James P. Selvage, who works under the organization's paid and unpublicized Executive Vice President Walter Bertheau Weisenburger. Onetime managing editor of Samuel Clemens' old Hannibal (Mo.) Morning Journal, Mr. Weisen-burger went to N.A.M. from the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, where he was serving as paid head at the time Lindbergh flew to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis...
...Fair last week went Reich Air Minister Göring and trainloads of important Army officers, not to gape at sample booths but to pay homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week Army officers and town mayors...
...essence, the Burger bombproof cellar is a boilerlike contraption of heavy steel slightly larger than an automobile trailer. Buried in the ground, it is fitted with bunks and provision shelves for householders. A special pump keeps gas from seeping in by increasing the interior pressure. As in a submarine, the air is kept fresh by passing it through coils of chemicals...