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...done the Russians an unintentional favor by making the Nazis push their factories deeper into Eastern Germany. A few German plane builders escaped, but 80% of the Nazi aircraft industry-then well ahead of the U.S. on jet development-was whisked behind the Iron Curtain. The Russians got Designer Sigfrid Günther of Heinkel; they moved the Junkers works to Kuibyshev. The V-2 laboratories and factories at Peenemunde were carted away to help Russian rocket research. Dozens of the new Messerschmitt-262 jet fighters were shipped off to Russia...
...simple, Dimitri-the folks have been so busy putting Irene [Good Night, Irene] to bed that they haven't had time... for "sissy stuff" like Beethoven and Brahms. The Philharmonic might find an increased dosage of Paul Hindemith, Sigfrid Karg-Elert and Vladimir Rebikoff beneficial...
Sweden. J. Sigfrid Edstrom, chairman of the Swedish General Electric Co., and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, hoped for a worldwide lowering of tariffs and reduction of import quotas. Einar Flygt, vice president of the Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...
Already several thousand subscriptions have poured in from a really remarkable group of Sweden's leaders-from Minister of Finance Ernst Wigforss and former Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler; from industrialists Sigfrid Edström and Torsten Hèrnod; from Managing Director Jacob Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank; and from such other well-known figures as the Countess Ebba Bonde, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and film director Victor Sjöström, who launched Greta Garbo...
Says young Sigfrid Hauck: "I have great plans and great hopes. . . . When I get a bestseller, we'll build a garage...