Word: salzburgs
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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...
...reward, the Nazi Government "permitted her to take a lease" on the sumptuous Schloss Leopoldskron, near Salzburg, taken over from Jewish Max Reinhardt after Anschluss. During the CzechoSlovak Crisis she did yeoman service for the Nazi campaign. When Mr. Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to gather impressions of conditions in Czecho-Slovakia, Princess Stephanie hurried to the Sudetenland castle of Prince Max Hohenlohe where the British "mediator" was entertained. In London during crucial weeks of the Czech Crisis, she was able to arrange the secret meetings between Man Friday Wiedemann and top-ranking Britons. A frequent hostess to Captain Wiedemann...
Twenty years ago a patch-mustached Austrian nobleman, Captain Georg von Trapp, commander of an Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious business of raising their family. The family flourished. By 1921 it included seven small von Trapps; and there were more to come...
...Czechoslovakian border, Field Marshal Hermann Göring had reportedly massed 200,000 men; from Salzburg, military highways were being feverishly constructed, and the railway to Eisenstein on the Czech frontier was being double-tracked. General Göring bragged at Nürnberg that private industry on the Rhine was crippled, so heavily had he drafted workers to rush completion of the Siegfried line. Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were...
...rivers is probably the misnamed Swanee.* But during the past year suburban Connecticut's sluggish Saugatuck has meandered into the national consciousness. Last March the arty town of Westport, on its banks, got into an argument with itself about whether or not to become "the U. S. Salzburg" (TIME, March...