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...North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American pier in the Hudson River, 10,000 sober-faced Germans gathered for services over 28 flag-draped coffins while a U. S. Navy blimp circled overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Waiting Room | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) an acclimatized crocodile; 5) floating debris from a Wartime German blimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Nessie | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...automobile, boat, blimp, bombing plane, autogiro and snowshoe, agents of the Bureau of Biological Survey, game wardens, State police, collegians and private volunteers have for months been quietly scouting lakes, ponds, marshes and ocean inlets from Canada to Mexico. Last week the Biological Survey announced their findings. They had counted some 9,500,000 wild ducks and geese, estimated as one-quarter of the North American wildfowl population. For 5,000,000 U. S. wildfowlers that was cheering news. It marked the second consecutive year of duck increase. Duck Recovery to oldtime abundance, however, was still a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ducks Unlimited | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Independently arrived at, Cartoonist Low's bulbous "Colonel Blimp" uttered his first upper-class fatuities in the London Evening Standard in April, 1934. Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...expected, Will Burton and Francis Maser have won out in the long and involved fight for jobs at the two tackle posts and will be understudied by Bill Prout and Bob Watson. Blimp Spring and Bob Downes are still listed by Dr. Guts Thorndike as "doubtful...

Author: By R. W. Paul, | Title: ENDS, 191-LB. LINE NAMED, READY FOR YALE ONSLAUGHTS | 11/21/1935 | See Source »

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