Word: hindenburg
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Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere-on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; so was the big snow cruiser that Admiral Byrd shipped to Antarctica. But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase. In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rudolf Diesel's biography gets just six lines...
Prince Saionji's life span was staggering. This was a man who was intimate not only with Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president...
After the scars of World War I had been harrowed from the battlefields of Europe, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg paid his respects to U. S. industry's part in Germany's defeat: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it." Of the War Industries Board which put U. S. industry to work, the old warrior gravely observed: "They understood...
...being more enlightening. But this one did not quite live up to its promise. Valuable is its firsthand account of the rise of the Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles of the Gestapo at work, with ambushes, escapes, assassinations...
...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...