Word: kufstein
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...Riedel's flagship crystal is still produced in the time-honored way, with glowing lumps of molten glass mouth-blown into cast-iron molds and fitted with hand-fashioned stems and bases by master craftsmen working in two factories at Kufstein, in the Austrian Tyrol near the German border, and at Schneegattern, north of Salzburg. Riedel glasses are near-perfect examples of ongoing innovation in traditional craftsmanship...
ZWISCHEN INNSBRUCK UNO KUFSTEIN (Amadeo). Yodels and other Alpine noises...
Birds of Peace. In Kufstein, Austria after a dispute at the Austrian Dove Breeders' Association, cops hauled four men and two women to a hospital, estimated damages...
Behind patrols of tanks, armored cars and motorcycles mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
...Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited...