Word: magnetos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert Bosch, 80, bald, bearded German magneto king; in Stuttgart. A farmer's son, he developed a small electrical business in a backyard shop in Stuttgart into a $1,000,000 industry, based chiefly on the world-famed Bosch high-tension magneto, the Bosch auto horn, the Bosch lamp...
...Abbeville, Antwerp; sowed seeds in the fertile congestion of Berlin; weeded out Channel gun emplacements near Boulogne; fertilized with grimness barges on the coast, oil tanks and rail sidings throughout the German areas, and special objectives like the Bosch spark-plug factory at Stuttgart, the docks at Hamburg, Marelli magneto plant near Turin, an aluminum factory at Bitterfeld, huge power plants at Genoa...
...pattern of bombings in Germany proper since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry...