Word: tempelhofer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Fascists to help celebrate the Dollfuss festival. Nazis and those who still remembered the War threw rocks and scattered tacks in the roadway. The Italians' tires were punctured more than 200 times. One, irritated, shot a bystander. Germany. Nazis celebrated by staging at Berlin's vast Tempelhof Air Field one of the greatest mass meetings the world has ever seen. It was best described by Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times who last week won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for topnotch foreign correspondence (see p. 59). Excerpts: "It has been said that there were...
...underground vaults where still lay three defendants at that trial, all acquitted, all Bulgarians, all Communists: Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff. (The fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted and beheaded.) In haste and secrecy the three were hustled to a plane at Berlin's Tempelhof Field. In two long hops they were out of Nazi Germany and Göring's reach and into Communist Moscow arid the midst of a cheering mob, speechmaking officials and holiday rockets...
...generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow fuel-pumps. Off again, Winnie Mae got to the Russian border, was driven by thunderstorms back to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, where Pilot Post...
With a shrug of resignation the dispatcher at Le Bourget airdrome switched off the floodlights which had blazed through the night. From Tempelhof weary newsmen dragged themselves off to bed. At Croydon the telephone operator made a last effort to raise remote stations, silent because of Whitsunday. At Floyd Bennett Field, New York, pessimism deepened to despair. It was 40 hours since Jimmie Mattern had rocketed off the mile-long concrete runway, and there was no word of his landing. His fuel must have run out at least ten hours...
While Imperial and Nazi banners flapped, while bands blared and thousands marched and cheered at Berlin's Tempelhof Airfield Handsome Adolf outlined a legislative program: $250,000,000 public works project; reduction of domestic-interest rates; foreign trade agreements: conscription of labor "to make every German, regardless of birth or wealth, work with his hands once in his life...