Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adventures of Maya (German). U. S. folk of all sizes and ages will go many times to see how the blunt bee survived the perfidy of the green spider and the mischief of hornets to bring the message of battle to his drowsy queen. This picture took six years to make and is a coherent, exciting story in which all the actors and actresses are insects. Best shot: the warring swarms among looted honeycombs...
...from Frankfort on the Main last week came Germany's Farbenindustrie (farben: to dye) accompanied by enthusiastic activity on the part of U. S. bond purchasers and a lone wail of protest from Finance-Writer Hugh Farrell. The German chemical "invasion" of U. S. territory took the form of the incorporation of American I. G. Chemical Corp. as a Delaware affiliate of I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft of Frankfort, commonly known as I. G. Dyes and loosely referred to as the German Dye Trust. When Chemist Carl Bosch, I. G. Dyes' president and Dr. Karl Düysberg, its Chairman, came...
...Herren Doktoren Bosch, Schmitz and Greif of I. G. Dyes, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Chairman Mitchell and Warburg of the two Manhattan banking houses, and President Edsel Ford of Ford. What proportion of the new company's stock will be held, respectively, by its U. S. and German interests is not stated. Control, however, was assumed to rest at Frankfort on the Main...
...Anne of Cleves, a plain German, no longer young. Henry had seen only Holbein's portrait of her. He married her largely to gain influential friends against France. Seeing her for the first time, he "disliked her person." He went through with the ceremony, set her aside...
...plane carried a radio, it could have been notified of a 30 m.p.h. tailwind which was blowing on a lower level. Distance: 4,130 mi.; time: 50 hrs., 38 min. (about 300 mi. short of the non-stop Rome-to-Brazil record flight; 15 hrs. short of the German endurance record...