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...Western Berlin's two airfields (Tempelhof and Gatow). On Air Force Day thousands of Germans gathered at the Berlin fields and at the loading bases at Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Many kept tallies of the number of flights and tonnage of coal as husky Latvian and Esthonian D.P.s tossed 110-lb. bags into the planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Carrying the Coal | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...powerful, with his 24 match monopolies, his loans to governments totaling $400,000,000, that when he crudely forged $100,000,000 worth of Italian bonds, nobody examined them. When he committed suicide the Swedish Parliament assembled, the Bank for International Settlements met, the head of the Esthonian match monopoly killed himself, Author Marcosson, whose laudatory interview was appearing in the Satevepost, was thunderstruck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caesars into Dust | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...discipline, its grace. As ballet master at the opera house in Münster he found a sympathetic collaborator in Fritz Cohen, a budding young conductor who was glad to write music for dancing. In Münster the leading dancer was Aino Siimola, a sleek black-haired Esthonian who became Jooss's wife and assistant director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jooss Start | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...crew in a foreign seaport. As my occupation is similar to his I wish you would inform me of the outcome of his trial. . . . JOHN M. WHEATON Port Arthur, Tex. While the Sundance was discharging cargo at Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams shot him dead. Belgian authorities cleared Mate Adams. Last month, charged. with murder on the high seas, Mate Adams was freed by a Manhattan grand jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Three weeks ago when the U. S. freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: On the High Seas | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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