Word: zagreb
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...with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory in Karlovac were too sharp, but the knives were too blunt . . . The Uzor toy factory in Zagreb manufactured dolls dressed completely in black, while dolls made by the Jadran factory had crooked legs and their arms were of different lengths...
...fierce propaganda war between the Cominform and Tito, a Yugoslav newspaper last week found a new way to laugh at Soviet Russia. Zagreb's Naprijed took a look at a recent issue of Pravda, and reported that Stalin's name had appeared on Page One a total of 101 times. In addition to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin or Comrade Stalin (68 times), he was the "great leader" (ten times), "dear and beloved Stalin" (seven times) and "great Stalin" (six times). Other variations: "great leader of entire mankind," "Stalin the genius," "protagonist of our victories," "faithful fighter for the cause...
...young girl Communist named Vjera was caught by the Nazis in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. They jailed her, questioned her, tortured her. One of their most urgent questions: Where was Communist Leader Vladimir Popovich? Vjera replied truthfully that she had never heard of him before...
...first New York performance of Turandot in 20 years, City Opera's Director Laszlo Halasz had reached all the way into Yugoslavia to find a soprano, the Zagreb Opera's buxom, dark-haired Dragica Martinis, 29, who could, and would, sing the cold, high-ranging and ungrateful title role...
...Catholics have lost every school, orphanage, old folks' home or other type of refuge-in all, about 500 educational or charitable institutions. Many priests have been arrested for their sermons. A few months ago one was arrested in Zagreb because he told workers they ought to be married in church...