Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret arsenals. Their organization outlawed, their top leaders shot, the Iron Guards were discovered last week to have been not only hatching new plots but making new weapons. When a German-owned factory near Bucharest was raided, it was found that under an army lieutenant a crew of workmen, chauffeurs and students was making flamethrowers that would burn a foe to a crisp at 100 yards. Green shirts said they had planned to take over the Government "even if we had to burn down Bucharest...
...serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
...Schuschnigg, Austria's last Chancellor), sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany besides selling it widely in Italy and Insurgent Spain. His only loss was in eyesight: he had to begin wearing spectacles for work. Last week Herr Hitler entertained at a Christmas party 7,000 workmen now building Berlin's new mammoth Chancellery, told them: "The next decade will show those countries with their patent democracy where true culture is to be found...
...converging flood of population is still four months away, but San Francisco has only six weeks before the great visitation begins.* Last week curious and critical San Franciscans took a last look around their Exposition's "Treasure Island," probably about to be closed to visitors while 3,000 workmen go on double shift to polish it off for opening...
Accomodations are being prepared by the Maintenance Department to care for 150 lectures. The workmen have installed modern lighting equipment and are in the process of painting the walls, securing benches, and finishing the floor...