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...flying over San Diego), a 10-passenger dirigible it hopes to use for sight-seeing trips. Blimps are also being looked at for use in surveillance and shipping. But the most nostalgic entrance will come later this year when Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik, the good people who brought us the Hindenburg, begin test flights of a new model for the millennium...
...that he threatened to return with a gun and shoot it down. That outburst came shortly after Orange County, stunned by a $1.5 billion loss in the $20 billion investment pool that Citron managed, filed for bankruptcy protection in the largest municipal collapse in U.S. history. "This is the Hindenburg," said Joe Mysack, who follows the bond market as editor of Grant's Municipal Bond Observer. "There are no bankruptcies larger than this one." The unprecedented action...
Hitler called the democratically elected Weimar government weak, referring to its again patriarch. Paul von Hindenburg, as "the old gentleman." Last week, Zhirinovsky said the Russian government is "in its final agony," suggesting that President Boris Yeltsin is sick and due for retirement...
...still did not have a majority in 1932, and the constitution permitted President Hindenburg to name any Chancellor he wished, authorizing him to rule by a series of presidential decrees. The first time Hindenburg summoned Hitler and asked him to support a conservative regime headed by a dapper courtier named Franz von Papen, Hitler demanded full power for himself; Hindenburg not only refused but dressed Hitler down for lacking "chivalry." In the last pre-Hitler elections in November of 1932, the Nazis lost strength, from 230 seats to 196. The party was an estimated $5 million in debt, unable...
Then in the first week of January, chances and hopes almost miraculously returned. Hindenburg was persuaded to try the idea of a new conservative coalition: Hitler as Chancellor, Papen as Vice Chancellor, with only two other Nazis in the Cabinet. "In this way," said the non-Nazi Minister of Economic Affairs, "we will box Hitler in." A fatal misjudgment. A month later, the Reichstag was in flames, Hitler was persuading Hindenburg to suspend civil liberties, and the most terrible chapter in 20th century history was about to open...