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...year to the day after leaving Berlin on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic to the United States, the giant German "Hindenburg Zeppelin" crashed in flames as it was about to land at Lakehurst at 6:25 o'clock last night...
Before the "Hindenburg" was completed, Hugo Eckner, father of the modern Zeppelin, urged that helium be used throughout, but he was outvoted...
...Hindenburg" was the largest airship ever built, being 811 feet in length and having a gas volume of 7,063,0000 cubic feet. Its weight was 200 tons. The American ships "Akron" and "Macon" were both 785 feet long. The "Akron" crashed in a storm off New Jersey in 1933, causing the death of 73 people. The "Macon" fell off California in 1935, only losing 2 lives...
Officially Hitler, "The Leader," accorded to Ludendorff a title the General has yearned for all these years, that of "The Field Lord" (Der Feldherr). Thus Herr Hitler made it official that during the War not Hindenburg but Ludendorff was, at General Staff Headquarters, the big shot. Reverently last week the Nazi press an nounced: "The Field Lord Ludendorff will use his surpassing knowledge and capabilities unreservedly and passionately for The Leader's work of Liberation. The Field Lord Ludendorff acknowledges The Lead er's political achievements fully and com pletely, and after long years of searching and consideration...
...will fly from Newark to San Francisco by United, to Hong Kong by Pan American, to Athens by Britain's Imperial Airways, to Milan by Italy's Ala Littoria and Avio Linee Italiane, to Frankfurt by Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.), to Lakehurst, N. J. on the Hindenburg, back to Newark by American Airlines...