Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese woman blown 200 yards through the window of Harvardman White's room. A bomb struck the Chungking power station. Chungking's radio went dead, the city's lights went out. The home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife waited with cans of water to fight the flames. As morning came they watched helplessly while 100 Chinese, trapped against the base of the city wall outside their house, were burned to death...
...those 14 years, milk-drinking, early-to-bed Lou Gehrig, son of a German-born Manhattan janitor, became famed as Base ball's Iron Horse. He played in 2,130 consecutive games (besides seven World Series and hundreds of exhibition games)-a record that no baseballer has ever approached or perhaps ever will.* Far more important than his record for durability, however, is Gehrig's batting record: 1,991 runs driven in (100 runs or more a year for 13 years), 2,721 hits (1,192 of them for extra bases), 1,886 runs (including 494 home runs...
Boss of Bat'a now is Thomas' half-brother Jan, a vigorous anti-Nazi who was wisely sojourning in Rumania when Germany grabbed Czecho-Slovakia, but has since returned to Zlin. His biggest current problem is the 25% countervailing duty imposed by the U. S. on German-made goods, which completely kills Czech shoe imports (3,250,000 pairs last year). The Belcamp plant is Bat'a's attempt to hold this fat U. S. market...
Cincinnati is a musical city. It owes its music to the influx of German refugees (after Germany's revolution of 1848) whom the yellow Ohio River reminded of the Rhine. With them to Cincinnati they brought Moselle and Riesling wine grapes, which they planted in the surrounding hills, and traditional German love of music. The grapes did not turn out well, but the love of music soon began to bear...
...Cincinnati's German-American burghers decided to have a big music festival. They got together the small singing societies in Cincinnati and nearby cities, invited famed Conductor Theodore Thomas to bring his own orchestra. The festival was such a rip-roaring success that it became the talk of every small town in the Midwest. Five years later, Cincinnatians decided that their festival needed a permanent home. So at a cost of $310,000 they built themselves what was then the largest and finest concert auditorium in the U. S. Today Cincinnati's enormous, ancient, many-spired Music Hall...