Word: silesia
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Every Christmas Lanny goes to Kurt's home and brushes up on conditions in Silesia. He also visits Munich, where he hears an early oration by "Adi" Schicklgruber; Paris, where Isadora Duncan propositions him; Rome, where he gets into hot water trying to help Matteoti; London, where he promotes Stepfather Marcel's paintings. He becomes something of an art expert, has his first durable affair, goes on dialectical sprees with his Red Uncle Jesse, acquires a becoming pinkness. He captures a U. S. multimillionheiress, experiences life among the shrieking rich on Long Island's South Shore, turns...
Whatever the planes, the lesson of the raid was simple. Its radius described an arc which included all of Germany proper, part of Poland's once-vaunted "industrial triangl," all of Polish Silesia, with its iron and coal mines and munitions factories, all of Bohemia-Moravia, the whole of Austria, Hungary as far as Budapest, and, at the very edge of the arc's lower end, Rome...
...famed U. S. Engineer Herman Alexander Brassert, he built a smelter, a rolling mill, a canal over ten miles long, houses for 150,000 workmen. Then, like a geyser, the Göring Works shot up into a vertical trust, overflowed in every direction: into coal fields in Upper Silesia, gravel pits, quarries, lignite mines east of the Elbe, lime deposits in Bavaria, refractory materials in Upper Palatinate. Aiming at power-in-general rather than any organic industrial shape, the Göring trust next spread into oil fields, commercia houses, shipping companies. In 1938 the capital jumped...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...
...heavy industries-close to the sources of coal and iron. Europe's major coal field lies roughly in a great arc. Using Oslo as a centre it is possible to describe that arc with a compass. It begins in the Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany. Lesser mining and manufacturing areas are scattered in other...