Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...reporting to a reserve squadron. After the death of Manfred von Richthofen and his successor, a Captain Reinhard, Göring took command of Richthofen's famed Circus. Ordered to surrender his squadron to the advancing Americans on Nov.11, 1918, Göring disobeyed orders for a third time, flew the squadron to Darmstadt. A part of it became detached and had to land at Mannheim, where the fliers were clapped into prison. Göring telegraphed an ultimatum to the military authorities in Mannheim, demanding his comrades' release within an hour. Otherwise he would bomb Mannheim...
...morning, drives to work (solemnly saluting a statue of General Lee along the way), reaches his office at precisely 5:40. At 1:15 he drives home (again saluting General Lee), spends his afternoon working on books, articles, lectures, talks for an hour with his wife, climbs to the third-floor suite where he has a bedroom, study, bath, and a little chapel (with stained-glass window) for meditation. At exactly 8:45 he goes...
...bread upon the waters, sometimes has unexpected returns. When Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera started its current campaign to raise $1,000,000, it hoped for widespread giving, naturally expected most from Manhattan's operagoers. Last week the fund's contributions had reached $677,344. Almost a third of this sum had trickled in from small contributors who knew the Met only from its Saturday afternoon broadcasts...
Everybody knows that pickaninnies can be smart as paint, but many a white doubts the innate intelligence of Negroes. A Northwestern University professor, Paul Witty, assisted by Dr. Martin Jenkins, picked out the brighter children among 8,400 Negroes in the third to eighth grades of seven Chicago public schools, gave them intelligence tests. Their findings, announced last week...
...completion of 750 new plants is expected to up the industry's investment to $45,000,000. Baker Ice Machine Co., of which Roger Sprague is now sales head, last year made $400,000 worth of refrigerating machinery for new locker plants - about a third of the U. S. business in that field...