Word: minden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with troop and munition movements. Last week the Baltic Sea was joined to this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions...
Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
Aldrich, reserved, immaculate chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, put on a pair of overalls at Minden, La., climbed into the cab of a locomotive on Mr. Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. Mrs. Aldrich boarded a coach and the train chuffed off to Hope, Ark. There Utilitarian Couch had a hillbilly band at the station to meet them. The Aldriches climbed out, danced a square dance on the platform before Host Couch whisked them off to his island lodge...
Divorced, Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Corp., $100,000,000 investment trust; by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, president of Atlas Corp.'s swank Fifth Avenue department store, Bonwit Teller; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Three days before her decree was granted in Nevada, Bonwit Teller gave a party for Mrs. Odium in Manhattan, to celebrate her first year as store-head...
...third game, the teams moved to St. Louis. In the crowd of 34,000 were a Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Taylor of Minden, Nev., who had sold their 200-acre farm, driven their car for five days and six nights to be there. Pitcher Dizzy Dean's brother, Pitcher Paul ("Daffy") Dean, allowed 14 Detroit batsmen to get on base, but only one of them scored. When St. Louis had won. 4-to-1, he described the game: "I couldn't get my curve ball breaking properly. We'll go right through them...