Word: frankforter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressing a Button. From the German press came a first detailed story by a front reporter of the robot bombs' launchings. The German nicknames for Vi: "Paula" and "Pauline." Soldiers often wrote messages on the missiles: "Revenge for Frankfort...
...kind from the chaos of ravaged London ; one can die as miserably in the slums of Chicago as in the slums of Istanbul; and the assembly lines which in Detroit made automata of populations are ' yet first cousins to the factories which blacken the sky of Frankfort on the Main. We wandered into this iron theatre together; we confront together its strange confusions; and we shall find our way out together. Together, I think...
Miss Edinger, too, is receiving her second Guggenheim Fellowship. A distinguished refugee scholar from Germany, she was educated at the University of Heidelberg, Munich, and Frankfort, and has been a research associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology since 1944. Her contributions to scholarly journals published in German, French, and English, are numerous...
Consequences. In one 24-hour period last week U.S. and R.A.F. commanders teamed up to launch more than 5,000 warplanes over Europe. Three massive assaults dropped a total bomb load of almost 7,000 tons on Berlin, Frankfort, Brunswick and other industrial targets. U.S. heavy bombers attacked on six of the seven days of the week. R.A.F. heavies dropped a record load of 3,360 tons on Frankfort; two nights later they dropped 2,800 tons on Berlin, then 2,240 tons on Essen...
...Punch. Still another day, and a U.S. air fleet, estimated at 1,600 to 2,000 bombers and fighter escorts, launched a blow deep into South Germany, hitting Augsburg and four other towns. By nightfall, the R.A.F. crews were briefed and ready for a heavy followup, aimed mainly at Frankfort on the Main. And through the week, almost obscured by the work of the heavy bombers, fleets of mediums and fighter bombers struck methodically at Western France, dropped 5,000 tons of bombs in five days...