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...city where, in the heyday of the Nazi Party's rise to world power, the Auslandsdeutschen-Germans living abroad-met each year to plan their fifth-column tactics. Last week a half hour's raid left extensive areas of Stuttgart afire, presumably including the Daimler-Benz motor plants, the Bosch ignition works, the mass-production auto factory of Opel and many other war-important industries...
...engine drives the P-38, the P39 and the P-40. Its development was late in starting and was carried on under great difficulties. It has not yet caught up with its opposite numbers, Britain's Rolls-Royce (also being manufactured in this country) and Germany's Daimler-Benz...
...could be. One night when there was a hint of better ceilings after several days of bad weather, the R.A.F. thundered out across Germany with close to 300 planes. The target was industrial Mannheim (pop. 275,000), railroad-veined center on the upper Rhine. The R.A.F. was after the Daimler-Benz airplane-engine (for Messerschmitts, Dorniers, etc.) works, the Lanz armament plant, the vast Badische chemical works nearby...
Meanwhile, on foreign fronts Göring's trust followed the troops. From the Austrian National Bank he got control of Louis Rothschild's holdings: Austria's leading automobile and former armament company (Steyr-Daimler-Puch A. G.), .the Danube steamship company, a railroad car factory. After a struggle, the Thyssen group coughed up Alpine Montangesell-schaft A. G., No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt...
...citizen of the placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when he was 15, designed his first plane in 1916, became chief engineer of Bayerische Flugzengwerke at Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved...