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...order to make air-minded but temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
...stir in the U. S. that it might just as well have been secret. New York City's whitewings had just cleaned up 1,900 tons of paper thrown into the streets in honor of an Irishman who had managed to hit Ireland. The clocklike navigation of the Brandenburg's, crew, in contrast, was feebly cheered by only 2,000 people...
...plans had been divulged. One of Europe's newest capitals, Berlin's history even as an insignificant village dates back only 700 years as compared to London's 2,000, Paris' 2,050 years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia...
...Lustgarten, connecting Unter den Linden, Charlottenburger Chaussée, the Heerstrasse. Crossing the East-West axis in the Tiergarten will be the North-South axis, which will run for 24 miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg. The four circular boulevards -whose radii from the Tiergarten intersection will be respectively two, four, six and eight miles-will follow streets largely in existence...
...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...