Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caterpillar: "What size do you want...
Soon Adolf finds himself wandering in a garden-"Berchtesgarden, you know"-and comes on a mushroom which turns out to be a small atlas globe with a tall, thin, umbrella-bearing caterpillar on it. Adolf has an uncomfortable suspicion. He becomes excited, and begins to shout about negotiations with "Those dirty Jewish Eskimos." To quiet him, the caterpillar suggests a poem...
...made of cumbersome cotton. Later he aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh; four emergency jumps...
...Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white-plumed hat took the salute while tanks, armored cars, caterpillar trucks, motorized antiaircraft units whirled past in the glare of searchlights...
...German heat wave was too much for the "volunteers" home from Spain. As they paraded by their sweating Führer, many of them fainted. The asphalt on Berlin's Via Triumphalis was so soft that no tanks or cars with caterpillar treads were allowed on the avenue. For the second time Führer Hitler blossomed out in the new white ceremonial jacket which correspondents labeled the "Axis coat," since it first appeared at the signing of the Italian-German alliance...