Word: fritsche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hydro (U. S. Department of the Interior) was filmed by a onetime MARCH OF TIME director, Gunther von Fritsch. A slick job of cutting and photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon...
...accident? Well, Mussolini and Balbo didn't agree about Italy's friendship with Germany; that's why Balbo was sent away to Libya. So if it was an accident, was it perhaps the sort of accident that happened to the German Field Marshal von Fritsch who disagreed with Hitler? You can't tell with dictators...
...German radio commented: "Balbo's death . . . occurred in the same spirit as that of Fritsch (the German Army Chief of Staff who, after opposing Hitler and being demoted, died mysteriously in action on the Polish front...