Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week Shipping Clerk Karl Wehn of Greenfield Tap & Die Corp. opened the company shipping room in downtown Manhattan and found that someone had been there before him. A three-foot hole gaped through a brick wall into an adjoining building. Empty were shelves and storage bins. Missing were valuable, high-speed drills and carbon-steel drills used in machine tools for airplane-engine and munitions manufacture-drills, that had been packed in cloth and straw and wrapped in brown paper, ready for shipment...
...great ideologues of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who really had something to say, had said it so clumsily that old Bolsheviks liked to boast that it had taken them a lifetime to understand the third volume of Das Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper-stage dialecticians. Comrade Stalin, densely narcotic in Russian, was practically lethal in English. There remained a library of dull, flimsy, semiliterate pamphlets (many of them translated from Russian via German). Moreover, their authors were constantly falling into doctrinal disfavor...
Somewhere behind the German lines, in a house on whose walls hung quaint pictures of Belgian and French beauties of days gone by, German-American Hearst Writer Karl H. von Wiegand waited one day last week for Hitler. Around him, like suspicious police dogs, gathered the familiar assistants of a Hitler interview: Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Ribbentrop's Lawyer Hewel, Chief of the Propaganda Ministry's Press Bureau Dr. Dietrich, Foreign Office Interpreter Schmidt...
...chasing Karl von Wiegand hoped for a scoop. In 1914 he was rebuked by U. P. for wasting money on a 138-word cablegram-on Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia. Later he had something to say on behalf of Italy in Ethiopia, Japan in China, the Rebels in Spain. He hoped last week that nearly victorious Hitler would have something sensational...
...citizens see the situation clearly, they will bring irresistible pressure upon the American Government to make available to the Allies our airplanes and other war material, our military secrets, our great financial resources and the immense productive capacity of American industry." > M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Comn-ton: "I believe that the policies of pacifism and isolationism . . . are in no small degree responsible for today's tragic ruin of the hopes of 20 years ago." President Compton announced that M. I. T., which in 1914 started the first course in aeronautical engineering...