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Napoleon did. The Consul-for-life for the French Republic soon broke with England after the short-lived Peace of Amiens, he threatened to invade England, he declared war against Austria and won the battle of Austerlitz. Prussia declared war against him and lost the battle of Jena...
...roof of the Hotel Bradofrd, presenting the Ziegfeld Follies star, Jena Sargent, in the aristocrat of floor shows "Autumn Days." Fifty gorgeous "Boots McKenna girls" are dazzling. Seven course diner, $1.50. Never a cover charge. For reservations call...
Dictators not only make history but hurry it: they must become a living legend or their power will vanish. Hitler has turned the trick as far as Germany is concerned. Without a Jena or an Austerlitz, without even an Aduwa, he has become to Nazi Germany what Napoleon was to France, what Mussolini is to Italy. Of all the world's verbal and printed criticism of Hitler and his works, little percolates beyond the Rhine. Certainly neither the Realmleader nor any other inhabitant of Germany is likely to see either of the biographies U. S. readers were popping their...
...planetarium idea originated in Germany and the complicated, costly ($120,000) two-ton machine which projects the celestial images is manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Optical Works at Jena. This consists of two lens-studded globes mounted on each end of a cylindrical frame eleven feet long, is shaped like a huge dumbbell, looks like the grotesque plaything of an ogre. In effect the machine is simply an extremely versatile stereopticon. It shows the stars visible to the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, about 4,500 from any one spot; the sun, the moon and its phases, the planets...
...York Authority which builds toll tunnels, toll bridges and other self-liquidating port improvements. Such Authorities may issue bonds. The Planetarium Authority would pledge its bonds to Reconstruction Finance Corp. for the money needed to buy a planetarium projection device (price $110,000) from Carl Zeiss Inc. of Jena and put up the necessary building. The City of New York would transfer the land temporarily. Thus neither the City nor the Museum need impair its own credit. Admission fees ($50,000 or $100,000 yearly) would pay off the R. F. C. loan...