Word: eitel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser's other children: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich (died 1942), Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim (died 1920) and Princess Victoria Louise...
...better dynastic days the Hohenzollerns had had an astonishing appetite for real estate. "Come to think of it, I would like to have Windsor Castle for a summer resort," Kaiser Wilhelm II once casually remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam...
Eight years ago Bill Eitel and Jack McCullough, two young California radio hams, set out to prove that they could make a vacuum tube higher powered and cheaper than anyone had ever made before. They had $5,000 put up by two friends, an empty meat market in San Bruno near San Francisco, and some practical experience in the laboratories of a nearby radio manufacturer, Heintz & Kaufman. Last week Bill and Jack had an enormous military-secret backlog, a new plant in the West besides their hugely expanded San Bruno factory, a long list of licensees, and an Army & Navy...
...Jack McCullough puts it now, "We didn't know what couldn't be done when we went into the business so we went ahead and did it." He is also modest about Bill Eitel's and his first experience with making vacuum tubes (when Heintz & Kaufman turned them loose on an order for some from an R.C.A. competitor). "Bill burned his fingers a little and broke a lot of glass," says Jack, "but he finally came out of the basement with a vacuum tube...