Word: linz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ricardo De Blanco, a Texan with lavish tastes and enough oil wells to gratify them, was quite pleased with the diamond-buckled gold belt which Dallas' Linz Bros, had sold him "to wear with slacks." But his pet grey poodle, Toto, was troubled: his unruly hair kept tumbling into his eyes. Could Linz Bros, make Toto happy, too? It could, indeed. Last week, having fixed Toto's bangs with a set of silver barrettes (and a $250 diamond-studded white-gold set for Sundays), Linz Bros, was designing a Western-style dog collar for De Blanco...
Last autumn, members of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce were thrown into a state of delighted anticipation by news that 1) two Soviet aviators had flown a stolen Russian plane to Linz, Austria, and taken refuge with U.S. forces there, and 2) that each had voiced a desire to see, not Hollywood or the Statue of Liberty, but the Commonwealth of Virginia. They had heard its glories sung on a Voice of America broadcast beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...Camp McCauley airstrip near Linz, Austria, a Russian two-engine light bomber bounced on to the field, overshot the strip and crumpled into a fence. Out climbed a handsome Soviet air force lieutenant, English grammar in hand. "I is Russian pilot," he said. "Where is Linz...
...When Linz, Austria, was surrendered intact at week's end, the Allies could plan to catalogue the contents of the huge Linz Museum built by Hitler in memory of his mother. The Mother Hitler memorial collection is probably heavy with mediocre German pictures reflecting Hitler's infallibly turgid taste...
...southeastern front, Marshal Malinovsky was gathering momentum for a push into Bohemia, and south of Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...