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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked by the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender, two are left-the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst and the sturdy old Graf, which arrived the day after the tragedy in Frankfort from Rio de Janeiro, carrying 23 passengers. She was promptly grounded by the Reich. Having read full reports from Lakehurst, Dr. Eckener announced: "There must be no more flying with hydrogen. We must make an about face. We must use helium...
...raised little War Admiral's weight 100 Ib. over the winter. He finally contrived to grow from 15 hands to 15 hands, 3 inches. Listed in the Derby winter books at 15-to-1, War Admiral's odds dropped fast when he won two races at Havre de Grace this spring. In both he exhibited his sire's famed trait of taking the lead at the start, keeping it to the finish. Like Man o' War, War Admiral has a slightly peevish disposition. Much of the eight-minute delay at last week's start...
...fact that at its end the Hiltons are exactly where they were at its beginning constitutes its denouement. This is because, in the interim, each has been touched, lightly as by the warm March wind, by currents in life that invite or threaten change. Seventeen-year-old Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) has fallen in first love with the artist who is painting her portrait. Her brother Martin (Peter Willes) is interrupted in planning to run away from home by an invitation to dinner from the girl next door (Anita Louise). Roger Hilton (Ian Hunter), a diligent and prosperous accountant...
With Cecil Rhodes looking on approvingly from a portrait on the wall, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, cool, cultivated chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., reported on the state of the world's diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies...
...Just how De Beers managed to make nearly $15,000,000 profits last year with only one mine in full operation was not elucidated by Sir Ernest. Stockholders merely accepted the fact with a rousing "Hear! Hear!" The company inventories its diamonds on hand at ?1, and presumably a large part of the earnings, aside from some $4,200,000 derived from investments in such enterprises as African Explosives & Industries, Ltd., were realized on diamonds mined in previous years...