Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reinhardt, like all great theatrical impresarios, possesses the most subtle of all talents, that of recognizing genius. It was a question of time until Moissi should become famous; at first, his Italian accent made him unpopular; then, little and ugly and sad, he became a matinee idol; at last German critics, who are to other critics as the snail is to the turtle, awarded him their approval...
Moissi has played in Shaw and Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare and Euripides. He has played in Paris, Petrograd, London, Budapest and the littlest villages in Austria. In Moscow, he played in German while the rest of the cast spoke Russian. He lives on a hill near Vienna with his wife, Actress Johanna Terwin, who is also in the Redemption cast...
...Berliners knew, of course, of what Geheimrat von Opel was grumbling. From the great Opel works at Russelheim (between Frankfort and Mayence) there pour into Germany more than 250 cheap automobiles daily. Opel builds the cheapest, most standardized of all German cars. And, as a result, Opel has cornered more than half the German market. Other producers (Daimler-Benz, "Nag," Hansa-Lloyd, Adler, Horsch, Magirus, "NSU," Gothaer Waggon, Bayrische Motoren) call Opel the "General Motors of Germany...
...until 1902 that the Opel works were ready to turn out their first all-German automobile. It had two cylinders, a cardan-shift drive. Three years later, Opel engineers developed machines of 45 to 50 horsepower. Automobile production became the chief business at Russelheim. And when fire destroyed the sewing-machine plant in 1911, it was not rebuilt. The new Opel's concentrated on bicycles, motor cars...
...flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car." U. S. women wrote lengthy, passionate letters.* Last week, the German automobile industry heard alarming reports. Persistent were the rumors that the Opel family would sell control of" "General Motors of Germany" to General Motors of the U. S. Angry nationalists, worried competitors, planned an automobile trust to battle U. S. production methods. Daimler-Benz began to dicker with the Belgian...