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Word: dusseldorf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelin Around the World | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Lectures will be held on shipboard and elsewhere. Sailing from New York July 14 on the Tuscania, the itinerary will include visits to London, Birmingham. Sheffield, Liege, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Paris. The return trip will be made on the Berangaria, arriving in New York August 24. The tour will be taken as part of the individual extension program of summer work, undertaken by the various colleges and universities participating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN TOUR OFFERED TO ENGINEERING STUDENTS | 3/22/1928 | See Source »

THAT MAN HEINE?Lewis Browne?Macmillan ($3). Heinrich Heine, probably Germany's greatest lyric poet, was born in the ghetto of Dusseldorf on the Rhine. Tortured at school by little boys who aped the cruelties of their elders, he would sit in his uncle's library for long afternoons, the cry of the dark streets a far tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Other German territories seeking additional loans: Berlin, Hanover, Saxony, Prussia, Baden, Munich, Breslau, Frankfort, Hamburg, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Essen, Dusseldorf, Hagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foreign Loans | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf to see the kiln in action. He liked it; secured the U. S. rights to its use; immediately had mechanics awork at East Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Bricks | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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