Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Saratoga Springs, N. Y., a farmer of German descent, Charles Bollmeyer, argued hotly over the crisis with his wife (of Polish descent), finally shot her in the hips, chest, stomach with a shotgun. Throughout the U. S. men & women streamed to the Polish, German, British, French and Italian consulates...
A shortage of pinheads, colored for use by living-room tacticians in deploying armies over maps, was reported by Rand McNally & Co., who also were sold out of all large-scale European maps.
California aircraft companies readied 70 bombing planes for England and France. Telephone service to Europe was temporarily cut off; only calls to the Bank of England went over the cable to London, only official and banking calls to Paris.*
The shadow touched old John Traczyka in his tiny Brooklyn luncheonette. Brooding, he turned his life savings of $1,000 over to the Polish war chest, jumped from his second-story window to death on the sidewalk.
Fritz Kuhn, No. 1 U. S. Nazi, walked into his Manhattan office at 9 a.m. the morning German troops walked into Poland, immediately changed his map of Europe to make all western Poland the map color of Germany. Said Kuhn: "It will be all over in a few days."