Word: mannheim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German troop concentrations observed behind the Westwall from Coblenz to Mannheim were believed to be preparing, not for any major counteroffensive, but to reinforce the Wall, to counterattack locally, to engage the Allies in field fighting if & when they ever do break through...
...Morgan and James J. Hill. Art Patron Kahn sank his profits into the Metropolitan Opera Company of which he was chairman for 23 years. He installed Giulio Gatti-Casazza as manager in 1908. He brought Toscanini from Italy in 1908 and Arthur Bodanzky from his own home town in Mannheim in 1915. He spent nearly $2,000,000 buying out Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company when it threatened to ruin the Metropolitan in 1910. He stood ready to build a new opera house for the Metropolitan to seat 4,500, had already bought the land when...
...Salem County, N. J. His specialty was two-color work, generally of little depth, but he succeeded in producing a quantity of whiskey bottles now avidly sought by collectors as South Jersey glass. Most famed U. S. glassmaker was Henry William ("Baron") Stiegel who established a plant in Mannheim, Pa. in 1765, lived in a castle, had guns fired whenever he entered or left town, and died in bankruptcy in 1785. Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers, was made in Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the 19th Century. Later still, the golden iridescences...
...next jump to Iceland, en route to Chicago. But there were 25 that took off from the home base at Orbetello the morning before (TIME, June 26). Twenty-five crossed the Alps at Spluga Pass, roared over Zurich and Basle, and trailed shadows on the soil of Strasbourg, Mannheim, Cologne. The 25 wheeled over Amsterdam to be saluted in the air by a convoy of 60 Dutch seaplanes celebrating the 20th birthday of the Royal Dutch Air Force with a mass formation of their own. Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled I-BALB (Balbo...
Director Russell pointed with pride last week to the work of four associates. Agents Perrins in London, Anslinger in Washington, Sirks in Rotterdam, Thomas in Berlin. Smooth teamwork among these four gentlemen resulted in the arrest last March of an affable Greek known as Elie Eliopoulos in Mannheim, Germany. M. Eliopoulos was returned to Athens. After five months in a Greek jail, M. Eliopoulos sent word that he would like to talk with Thomas Wentworth Russell, who promptly sent a special officer from Egypt and suggested that a U. S. agent proceed from Paris. Elie Eliopoulos' confession uncovered...