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...time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane, a two-motored Dornier-Wal flying boat, was the same used by Roald Amundsen in his attempted Polar flight of 1925, and by Capt. Frank Courtney...
...Brooklyn, Charles Herzog and Fritz Vogel wrote to rubber companies asking for a big rubber ball in which they proposed to sail to Europe with no motive power or steering device other than the wind. They planned to take food and water for three months. They said they had been watching how Herzog's small daughter's toy balloon floated at the beach. Two concerns were interested...
...flying through wind and rain over Chicago, disappeared into a thundercloud, tumbled out of it in a crazy spin, crashed through the top of a steel gas tank, plunged into 40 ft. of water at the bottom, killed Pilot Orville Suchy and two joyride girl passengers. European Derby. Pilot Fritz Morzik of Germany, who last year won the International Around-Europe Reliability Tour for light planes, was last week declared winner of this year's 4,750-mi. derby...
...Some hope was seen in Ambassador Dawes at London. He is a musician of sorts himself: performs occasionally on the flute, has written a Melody in a Major which Violinist Fritz Kreisler rendered in a public concert at London last May and which thereupon became a best-seller throughout Britain. But Ambassador Dawes is always first & foremost a 100% "Amurrican." Just as Benjamin Franklin wore a coonskin cap in Paris and the late Alexander Pollock Moore gave stock-market tips and slapped backs in Madrid, so Ambassador Dawes strives to do that which is expected of him by the English...
...stocks on hand in Germany were worth $30,000,000. Without this, the War would have ended within a few months. With it, the greatest care had to be used lest the supply give out too soon. Savior of the situation at this critical time was the great scientist Fritz Haber, who made practical the extraction, on a large scale, of nitrogen from the air. Thus began the commercial production of synthetic nitrogen. After the War, another German scientist, Carl Bosch, adapted the process to peacetime uses, and became chief of Europe's largest corporation, the I. G. Farbenindustrie...