Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settled in a strange, silly, democratic land, what could Fritz Kuhn do to show his devotion? With great energy and great devotion but not with great success, he did what he could: he collected $2,300 for Reich relief, had a Golden Book signed by 6,000 loyal U. S. Nazis, and carried the book to Hitler. Mein Führer received the gifts and-what was more-let Fritz Kuhn be photographed with...
...little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry 40 or 50, up to one-ton monsters. As Britain mobilized an even greater trawler fleet and called for hundreds of volunteers from North Sea fishing ports, down went one ship after another, great and small, trawler and liner, nationality regardless. The 11,930-ton Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went down in 45 minutes off Harwich, near the grave of the Dutch Simon Bolivar, last fortnight's most tragic victim (85 dead). No lives were lost on Terukuni Maru...
...reconnaissance pushed far and frequently into Germany. German communiques made a point of mentioning that Nazi scouts were accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters.* Nevertheless, they admitted that, in one day, seven observers were lost. Same time the Nazis put the score for the whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that British Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes (capable of 335 m. p. h. and firing eight...
Meanwhile, inside Russia the threats came thicker & faster. Unlike anything so far seen on either side of World War II, students and workers staged great popular demonstrations in favor of war, demanding stern action against the "Finnish militarists." Moscow troops even got together and handed out statements declaring that there was a "limit to patience" and asking the Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people...
...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...