Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Hans Kundt, 70, soldier of fortune, German commander of the Bolivian Army during the Gran Chaco War; in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1918, mustered out of the German Army, Kundt migrated with his family to Bolivia, became a Bolivian citizen. When the Chaco war broke, Bolivia made him head of the Army, cashiered him when he failed to whip Paraguay...
...Mathieson Alkali announced that its new Lake Charles, La. synthetic salt cake plant would start operations about November 1, thus making the U. S. independent of foreign (especially German) supplies. Chief use of salt cake (sodium sulfate): kraft paper manufacture. >Paperboardcreditors' recoveries on Ivar Kreuger's great debacle...
...Orleans: Port commissioners prepared to remove cargoes awaiting two overdue German freighters to local warehouses. Several other ships had canceled their sailings...
...Warsaw last week Associated Press Correspondent Lloyd Lehbras got one of those scoops that every reporter dreams of. While he was telephoning the A. P. man in Budapest, German planes appeared over Warsaw, and Correspondent Lehbras dictated an exciting eye-witness account of the raid, which the A. P. promptly relayed to the U. S. Excerpts...
...telephoning this dispatch to Budapest with the phone in one hand and a gas mask in the other. . . . I can hear the wail of power-diving fighting ships and can see 14 German bombers slowly, steadily following the course of the Vistula River...