Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly cost Sikorsky his life in a forced landing. In 1913 (aged 24) he built and flew the world's first successful multi-motored airplane. His next model, a 4-engined monster which lifted twelve tons, made him famed as the "beardless father of Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only one was shot down in the course of 400 flights into enemy territory. From a Sikorsky bomber was dropped the first 1,000-lb. aerial bomb...
...Import Blockade." Adolf Hitler can make an "Economic Tsar" but an "Economic Tsar" cannot always work miracles. Up to last week Dr. Schmitt's Ministry of Economics had used its theoretically boundless powers chiefly to establish an "import blockade" or trade rationing system as drastic as Soviet Russia...
...jerked tight last week. German importers groaned as they were cut down for August 1934 to a quota of only 5% of their average monthly imports for 1931. Meanwhile the textile industry factories were put under pressure to weave artificial fibres into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since Germans are now hoarding goods in fear of inflation there is no dearth of "unhealthy orders," another factor in the boom. Sternly the Economics Ministry sent out fresh reminders last...
Corporative State? Ironically, the Man With the Cleft Nose was not mustered into the Hitler Cabinet to play the desperate role of Economic Tsar but to equip Germany with an ordered "Corporative State." Chancellor Hitler, who despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance...
...used in paying bonuses to drivers, trainers and stable boys of the winning mounts. Evening's driver, called "Citizen Pianov" by earnest Soviet sportswriters, received, in addition to his bonus, one month's holiday on the Black Sea near the one-time summer palace of Tsar Nicholas II, at Government expense...