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...British and U.S. soldiers, all with a healthy taste for blondes. Prices had risen 70% in less than a year and a half. Fishermen-fishing is Iceland's chief industry-netted almost as many mines as fish. The State liquor monopoly was being wrecked by bootlegging. Premier Hermann Jónasson's Cabinet had fallen twice in less than a month. The 1,011-year-old Parliament (the Althing) had rejected price-control plans as smacking of State Socialism...
They laid his body in state in the Air Ministry's great hall and flanked it with an honor guard. Adolf Hitler renamed Luftwaffe Squadron 3 the Udet Squadron and ordered a state funeral. Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring delivered the eulogy, then waddled after the flag-draped gun carriage on the mile-long march through silent, crowded streets to the cemetery. They buried him near the grave of Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...steeped in superstition his luck was legendary, and he was his own most faithful believer. When only 16 he launched a glider from a hill near Munich, crashed ingloriously in a cabbage patch. To gaping villagers, he cracked that the vicinity's "magnetic attraction" made flying impossible. Like Hermann Göring, he flew with Richthofen's Flying Circus, and his bag of 62 planes was second only to the Baron's 80. In a duel with the French ace Georges Guyne-mer, his machine gun jammed and left him helpless. The Frenchman spotted his predicament...
Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany...
...Aniline does not need chemists or executives as much as it needs friends. Judge Mack replaces D. A. Schmitz (brother of the German Dye Trust's Hermann Schmitz) who disappeared last month in an offhand Aniline announcement that he was "not now . . . president." Mack's election, the Aniline board evidently believes, will help uncloud the company. But the solution of the Aniline problem is not so simple as that...