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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operate them. Not until last week did the world realize in most dramatic fashion in what dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity to the great plane...
...countermarching of the past 13 years have not wiped from Italian minds the memory of two disgraces: the bloody defeat of their army in 1896 by barbarous Abyssinian tribesmen, and Italy's ignominious rout by Austrians and Germans at Caporetto in 1917. Since then Benito Mussolini has built up a war machine that on paper holds its own with the best in Europe. Abyssinia in 1935 will be a chance to test its worth. To make that test more impressive it would be a purely Fascist war. The commander in the field is none other than...
Died. John Philip Weyerhaeuser, 76, president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., eldest son of Founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser who built it up to be leader in the $10,000,000,000 U. S. lumber industry; of pneumonia; in Tacoma, Wash...
...disappeared in the hazy distance. Short while later a motorist drove up, babbled excitedly about how he had seen Maxim Gorki crash. Hardly had the news leaked out when instantly Soviet censorship clamped down. Not until ten hours later did the world know that the largest land-plane ever built had really met with disaster...
...Esso built three service stations in St. Louis, painting the pumps and buildings red, white and blue-the precise colors of Mr. Seubert's stations. Although Esso displayed signs reading NOT CONNECTED WITH STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA), Mr. Seubert was furious. Last week he marched into a St. Louis Federal Court to file the first big lawsuit ever to disturb the live-and-let-live peace of the Standard Oil companies...