Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed, 37 to 26, a bill permitting helium to be sold abroad in "nonmilitary" quantities, thus making the non-inflammable gas ( a virtual U. S. monopoly) available to foreign dirigibles like the late ill-fated Hindenburg...
...symbol of Victory rise above Montfaucon Memorial, looking down on Argonne Forest. There took place the biggest battle in U. S. History. There was lost the Lost Battalion. There the Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...opinion of Dr. Hugo Eckener on the cause of the catastrophic burning of the giant dirigible Hindenburg, pronounced at Lakehurst three weeks after the disaster (TIME, May 31): A Report by the U. S. Department of Commerce corroborating Eckener's reasoning that atmospheric electricity (otherwise known as St. Elmo's fire or "brush discharge") accumulated on the ship must have ignited leaking hydrogen. Weighed and rejected by the investigating committee were theories of sabotage, broken propeller, ignition by radio spark, structural failure, lightning...
First issue of News Parade was a film on the Hindenburg disaster which went on sale three weeks ago. Second was the Coronation of George VI. Third in the series, released last week, was a life story of the Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film...
...reading your story of the medical care for the victims of the Hindenburg fire [TlME, May 17], I was much impressed by the prompt response and competence shown by the medical people around Lakehurst. However, I came near shuddering as I am sure did many doctors and others whose primary interest is Medicine, to note how the burned ones were daubed with oils and grease* "carron, linseed, castor, lard...