Word: meissen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of reading newspapers and magazines he also collected a fat list of prospects and some dope about them, not all of it straight. He noted that Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, had a 6-oz. gold trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...
Throngs of women and children brought gifts-carved jade, Meissen chinaware, jeweled watches-to their heroes, the Anglo-U.S. airmen. Some 1,300 German laborers, of whom 75% were women, started work on a new airport in the city's French sector (see cut). Said Christian Democrat Leader Jakob Kaiser: "Fifty days of blockade have proved that what was supposed to force Berlin to surrender to a foreign will has been transformed into democracy's greatest victory in Germany since...
Salzburg hadn't looked so healthy in years-not since 1937 when Toscanini made it glow with Die Meistersinger and Fidelia. Store windows were chuck-full of cameras, Meissen china, English woolens. Last week thousands of music lovers poured into Salzburg for its famed music festival, and for the first time since the war found it something like old times...
...Russians have had more success in introducing Soviet living standards. Said a Meissen baker bitterly when asked what he thought of Germany's future: "They are lowering us to the Russian level. They want workers here to have 150 marks a month and one suit of clothes, as in Russia. Germans are used to better than that." A Meissen housewife, asked about her city's famed china, put it still more succinctly...