Word: nde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more gratifying to the Führer and Nazi patriots was the progress made in striping Germany with the finest highspeed road system (Reichsautobahnen) in the world. For last week any German motorist could drive from the Baltic Sea at Travemünde to Salzburg, at the foot of the Alps, without slowing for cross traffic or tooting his horn for an intersection. With almost the same ease, he could start at Cologne, near the Belgian border, zip past Berlin and wind up at the Polish frontier...
...across the Little Belt, which will link Sjaelland (not Zealand) to the east coast of Fyen (not Fünen), viz.: the Storstrøm bridge connects Sjaelland to the north with a small island lying north of Falster on the direct line to Berlin over Gedser-Warnemünde...
Lank King Christian had a personal as well as a patriotic interest in all this. Frequently he has taken the southern expresses from his capital to France. Returning once his private train nearly rolled off the ferry between Warnemünde and Gedser. On the same ferry some years later His Majesty was icebound all night. Last week in the bitter cold, he snipped the ribbon to open the bridge, while 30,000 of the 150,000 Danes who were expected roared approval, and a special radio car broadcast the ceremonies in four languages, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German...
Geographically Denmark, the land of fish and butter, is a peninsula and cluster of islands. Largest of its islands is Zealand, on which is the capital, Copenhagen. To reach Copenhagen from Berlin an express train must first board a seagoing ferry at Warnemünde, take a 30-mile trip to the island of Falster.* An hour later the train must transship again for a two-mile ferry ride to Zealand. Last week Minister of Public Works J. F. N. Friis-Skotte introduced a bill to the Folketing to give travelers one less ferry to cross...
April 18?Spring maneuvers of the German fleet; in Bay of Swinemünde, the Baltic...