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...will be inflated with non-inflammable helium. But because helium is much more expensive than hydrogen, Dr. Eckener plans to install fireproof hydrogen ballonets inside the helium cells for use in regulating altitude. Like the Akron and the Macon, the LZ-129 (which Dr. Eckener wants to name Hindenburg) is designed and equipped throughout so that hydrogen can be used in a pinch, should helium, a U. S. monopoly, become unobtainable...
...Eckener's old Graf last week, on regular schedule, completed her third round-trip to Pernambuco, Brazil. Only one delay marred her winter season. Departing for the second trip, the Graf fouled a radio antenna, slightly ripped fabric, broke a propeller. The old Graf is doomed after the Hindenburg is launched...
...Herr von Beneckendorff (ancestor of the German President) changed his name in 1789 by Royal consent to "von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg." Strictly speaking the President's name is Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
Last week the Catholics who have barred Herr Hitler (still a Catholic in his own eyes), the Socialists (who used to quarrel with the Catholics) and the other centre parties were united under what amounted to nothing more nor less than the banner of PRUDENCE?symbolized by HINDENBURG. If he lives out his second term he will have lived to the prodigious...
...Significance. Thoughtful Germans focused their attention not on the presidential poll last week but on the Diet elections April 24 in Prussia. Hamburg, Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Anhalt. In these elections the parties which grouped themselves last week behind the personality of Hindenburg will be fighting their own battles...