Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make Suez piloting tricky work, and a single accident can jam the canal for a week or more. At week's end the hard-pressed Egyptians were reportedly trying to lure Kiel Canal pilots to the Suez by offering them up to three times their $400-a-month German salaries...
...those skilled in reading such communications, the message was all there. But for those who still had questions, Dutch newspaper editors were summoned to The Hague's Noordeinde Palace. They were told that 47-year-old Juliana and her 45-year-old German prince were determined to work things out together. A government spokesman made it clear that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences...
Died. Colonel David Carl Schilling, 37, World War II European Theater ace (24 German planes in air fights and 10½ by strafing), who in 1950 made the first nonstop Atlantic jet crossing; when his car skidded into a bridge near the U.S. Air Force Base at Mildenhall, England...
Died. Bertolt ("Bert") Brecht, 58, slight, bespectacled German playwright (librettist for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera) who, according to ex-Communist Arthur Koestler, sold Marxism "with great brilliance and intellectual dishonesty" to "the snobs and parlor Communists" of Europe; of a heart attack; in East Berlin...
Died. Baron Constantin von Neurath, 83, onetime (1932-38) German Foreign Minister, who became "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, was replaced by Reinhard ("The Hangman") Heydrich (1941) after a wave of unrest; of a heart ailment; at Enzweihingen, Germany...