Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Hitler and Horthy rolled by special trains across Germany to Berlin, where they were welcomed on a gayly decorated station platform by No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The colossal German military display which followed was even bigger than that staged last year for Premier Mussolini. In the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg 1,100 armored cars and tanks, 318 motorcycles, 300 heavy guns, 750 cavalrymen, 61,000 infantrymen passed before Regent Horthy in just over two hours' time...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Felecia ran out on a busy intersection, embraced Patrolman John Rom, cried, "I love you," embarrassed Patrolman Rom, tied up traffic. Said she at the police station: "When I see a man in uniform I just get the yen to hug and kiss...
...ultrashort waves do spray beyond the horizon. When they travel far, however, they become as shifty and unaccountable as ricocheting bullets, cannot be relied upon to hit any particular target. Radiomen are appalled at the cost of setting up a network of ultra-short-wave stations, piping programs from station to station by cable or ordinary short-range radio-relay links. Last week was announced the invention by RCA's Inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of a system designed to eliminate such costly cables...
...railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand as a local train started to move out of an east-side station. An excited passenger jerked an emergency stop lever. The train jammed to a halt. Into the rear of it banged another local that was coasting into the station. Toll: two deaths, injuries...
...Krueger, wife of the conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, was confronted by one Charles E. McDonald, estranged husband of her companion and maid. Without much ado, Mr. McDonald shot her three times with an automatic. Mrs. Krueger was removed to a hospital, Charles McDonald to a police station. His explanation: "She broke up my home...