20 Years Ago War Starts in 54 Grim Hours
Twenty years ago between 5:11 a.m. Sept 1 and 11:15 a.m. Sept 3 the world moved from crisis to war in a dramatic reconstruction. The piece recalls Munich and the Sudetenland surrender Prague and Czechoslovakia Memel in Lithuania and the Polish Corridor as Hitler presses for Poland and a new conflict begins with force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Sudetenland
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Lithuania
Danzig
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Third Reich
Hitler
Poland
London
France
Paris
Berlin
Britain
East Prussia
Pomerania
Union
Kulm
Jozef Lipski
Foreign Office
Westerplatte
Henryk Sucharski
Hitler Seeks Peace as War Looms Over Europe
A chilling wartime chronicle describes the swift German invasion of Poland. Dawn airbombs hit Puck and Warsaw while Hitler in Berlin vows to fight a ten year war for Europe’s final peace, offering peace to the West while warning of menace.
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Puck
Ad Combs
Poland
Britain
France
Albert Forster
Danzig
Free City
Reich
League of Nations Commission
Warsaw
Hitler
Berlin
Kroll Opera House
Versailles
Germany
Europe
Detective Brings Up Defense Before Inquiry About Distress Call
Captain Brady fears loss of master’s papers after a boarding captain alleges distress on the Miranda. The two captains discuss the sea tale, Brady’s defense, and the need to remind the board of one key fact absolving him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady
Parachute Testers Jump From Air Force Plane at El Centro
At El Centro California a 43 year old pro parachute tester C W O Larry Lambert leaps from a C 141 transport wearing a green and yellow suit. He uses two smoke flares to aim for a bulls eye on the desert floor and opens his chute at the signal. Lambert is part of the Defense Department joint parachute test facility with 32 jumpers testing and evaluating all parachutes for the US armed forces. He describes the work as requiring quick thinking and precise timing. Lambert began in 1946 with the first live test of an aircraft ejection seat and is approaching his 700th jump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force Cite
C.W.O. Larry
Lambert
Ebel
Air Force
Defense Department
Navy Auxiliary Station
Replacing Gandy Dancers as Rail Lines Modernize
The Baltimore & Ohio replaces gandy dancers with mechanized spiking and tamping systems. A $30 million upgrade switches 17 divisions to power, boosting tamping speed from minutes per tie to seconds and increasing yearly track miles tamped from 600 to about 2,000. The old rail motor car fades as workers shift to trucks.
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Dan Donahue
Baltimore, Md
John Henry
America
Baltimore & Ohio
Perspir
Chhine
C. E. Jackman
B&o
Gandy Dancer
No. 97
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Tom Henshaw
Associated Press
Reichstag
Chanelleries
Marttin Brady
Joshua Mather
Mather
Horst Wessel
Benito Mussolini
Chamberlain
Chunky
Edouard Daladier
French
Chamber of Deputies
Commons
Kaiser Wilhelm II
el Centro
Calif
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