Word: linz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day in Austria, Anatoly Barsov was driven to the Urfahrer Bridge spanning the Danube at Linz. A U.S. captain asked him for the last time whether he was sure he wanted to be turned over to the Russians. Barsov shrugged indifferently, shook his head, as he went off to join the two Russian officers who were waiting...
...rich and sentimental Texas, such resourceful attention to the customer's whims has put Linz Bros. "Jewelists" (a copyrighted coinage) in a class by itself. To gladden its clients' eyes, Linz has turned out gold and platinum cowboy belt buckles, and jeweled stickpins shaped like oil derricks (one of them for a late-shopping oilman who amused himself while he waited by tossing silver dollars on the floor ahead of the janitor's broom). But such spectacular baubles are only the showy side of a solid, 72-year-old trade that grosses $2,000,000 a year...
...Road. Linz Bros, does not wait for business to step up to its horseshoe-shaped gem counter, but goes out after it with salesmen who range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been...
Their gadding about follows the tradition that Joseph Linz, a St. Louis watchmaker, began when he set up shop in the railroad town of Denison, Tex. in 1877, not long after the last big Indian raid. He sent brother Albert Linz roaming the Southwest by buggy and train, sleeping in railroad stations with his head pillowed on his jewel box, while he and two other brothers-Simon and Ben-ran the store...
...Roof. Brother Albert outlived all the rest. He was present on the day in 1899 when the shop moved to the Linz Building-a seven-story Dallas "skyscraper" with a roof garden where visitors could relax and enjoy the view.* And he was on hand in 1940 when Linz Bros, moved to its present quarters, a severely modern building a few doors from the Neiman-Marcus department store. Until his death last February, at 85, "Mr. Albert" showed up every day to hand his customers Irish jokebooks, and horehound candy to ward off colds. Then brother Simon's heirs...