Word: hamburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland.† For years Engineer Ole Singstad, assisted by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Illinois and Yale...
...Schmeling, world's heavyweight champion fisticuffer, signed a $250,000 U. S. cinema contract in Hamburg...
Dead Germans. That the people should thus behave was to be expected, but at the fortress in which President Washington Luis sat officers, too, lost their heads. They saw the Hamburg-South American liner Baden sail out of Rio bound for Buenos Aires, her decks teeming with Spanish emigrants. To stop her they fired three blank signal shots. The Baden steamed on. The fourth shot was a shrapnel shell. Bursting on deck it killed 23 Spanish emigrants, four German sailors, wounded forty others...
...Montreal. New tenors: Belgian Octave Dua already known in Chicago; Oscar Colcaire, naive of Lexington, Ky., onetime first violinist in the Cincinnati symphony; Paul Althouse, of Reading, Pa., for ten years with the Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence. New baritones: Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...
...sales was definitely established when the House committee investigating Communism questioned E. Y. Belitzky, vice president of the all-Russian textile syndicate, and the three New York grain brokers to whom he gave his selling orders. Comrade Belitzky revealed that he received by trans-Atlantic telephone instructions from Chlebtorg, Hamburg agency of the Russian grain trust, to sell 7,765,000 bu. of wheat in Chicago. According to this witness, Russia had the wheat to sell abroad but, pending delivery, decided to use the Chicago market to hedge the sale as a form of price insurance. Hedging, he said, seemed...