Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kollsman is the name of a shy, German-born inventor who studied mechanical engineering at the technical schools of Stuttgart and Munich, in 1923 emigrated to the U. S., found work as a truck driver's assistant, then as a mechanic for Pioneer Instrument Co., a Bendix subsidiary. By 1928 Paul Kollsman had accumulated $500 and started Kollsman Instrument...
When Gestapo agents searched his sister's home in Stuttgart and found pieces of clocks and two chisels with traces of plaster on them which exactly matched the plaster of the Bürgerbräu Keller, Elser decided to confess everything...
Then he left for Switzerland, dropping his tools in Stuttgart on the way. Being a worrier, however, he went back to Munich and entered the Bürgerbräu Keller (one of the best protected places in the world) several times in the night of the 7th to listen to the ticking...
...Dunellen, N. J., homesick Carl Schurr, a German iceman, traded his $1,300 house & lot for one in Stuttgart, Germany, recently vacated by Jewish Refugee Rudolph Stoessell. As Herr Schurr auctioned off his ice business lock, stock and tongs, Refugee Stoessell, already well housed in midtown Manhattan, put his new Dunellen estate up for rent...
...ordered to sea in a move of desperation, mutinied; Socialist Kurt Eisner led a monster demonstration in Munich which culminated in the proclaiming, November 8, of the Bavarian Socialist Republic; the German Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest put liberal Count Karolyi in power...