Word: mannheim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides were...
...naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
...Reinhard, Göring took command of Richthofen's famed Circus. Ordered to surrender his squadron to the advancing Americans on Nov.11, 1918, Göring disobeyed orders for a third time, flew the squadron to Darmstadt. A part of it became detached and had to land at Mannheim, where the fliers were clapped into prison. Göring telegraphed an ultimatum to the military authorities in Mannheim, demanding his comrades' release within an hour. Otherwise he would bomb Mannheim to the ground. The men were released. A few days later Göring disbanded the Circus...
...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...