Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very least, bold gestures by the southern master of the new Axis: 1) Italy's war games will be held this year not on the Austrian front as usual but in Sicily, one of the island bases from which Italy would operate if she were out to control the Mediterranean; 2) Italy's new warboats, provided in the big new "defense" budget, will be designed to make Italy's fleet capable of operating beyond the Mediterranean, on the high seas which England now dominates...
...actor-directors. The gobbling of UFA not only gave the Goebbels office a hold on Germany's cinema industry as strong as that it already has over the press; it gave Goebbels virtual ownership. In March, even before the switch in directors, an anonymous group bought control of UFA from the Hugenberg group. Berlin film men insisted last week that the real owner of UFA and Tobis is the Franz Eher Publishing Co., which in turn publishes the Nazi news-organ Volkischer Beobachter, and of which Adolf Hitler is supposed to be a partner...
...settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last place it reached was the passenger section in the belly, about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still...
...stand fast! We've got to get those people out of there!" With tremendous bravery, scores of gobs and civilians dashed headlong back to the conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled to the skin in back, his hair ablaze, his face rutted with third-degree burns, wandering about babbling: "Das versteh' ich nicht...
...first to go was Captain Lehmann. Just before he died he said: "I intended to stay with the ship as long as I could, until we could land her, if possible. But it was impossible. Everything around me was on fire. The windows were open in the central control cabin and I jumped about 100 ft. My clothes were all ablaze...