Word: rumpler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Edmund Rumpler, 68, Austrian-born designer of Germany's first automobile (1897), builder of the famed Rumpler "Taube" (Dove) scouting planes used by the Central Powers in World War I, pioneer advocate of big-scale transoceanic air service ("Give me wings large enough and sufficient motive power and I'll take the earth for an airplane ride"); of heart disease; in Mecklenburg, Germany. After the advent of Nazi power, Designer Rumpler was non-Aryan enough to be benched, big enough to remain in Germany...