Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the "plate glass riots" in Berlin, when nearly every Jewish department store had its windows smashed (TIME, Oct. 27), Prime Minister Otto Braun of Prussia decided last week that he needed a new, ruthless Minister of Interior. (In European countries generally the Minister of Interior controls the police...
...unguarded quarter of Berlin's smart shops and great department stores - a vicinity where the streets are so well paved that it is quite impossible to pick up stones - innocent looking citizens sud- denly appeared with stones in their pockets. Shrewdly they distributed themselves in front of the plate glass windows of Jewish-owned stores: Wertheim's, Griinfeld's, Behrendt's, Cords...
Wertheim's, Germans firmly believe, is the "Largest Department Store in the World," sells everything from toothpicks to limousines. Its block-long façade contains 36 large, shimmering plate-glass windows. Abruptly, at a mysterious signal, out from pockets leaped stones, smashed every Wertheim pane and many another...
Elaborately wrought, encrusted with 17th Century Portuguese ornamentation, it bears proudly the arms of the ten-year-old Portuguese Republic. Weight : 6 Ib. Mate rial: silver plate. Nature: inkstand...
John Coogan the chef has been with the College 20 years. Of the modern equipment that he uses there are six special refrigerators, and a refrigerating plant that freezes 3750 pounds of ice in ten hours. In addition there are electric dishwashers, waffle irons, toasters, hydraulic elevators, steam plate warmers, salad and plate coolers, four gas ovens, automatic egg boilers, and a potato peeler. This saves time and also wastes only 1-10 of the potato, while hand peeling wastes 1-3. There are soup vats large enough to boil a good-sized man, a fool-proof food chopper...