Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediterranean storm in 1923. When Britain's R-101 crashed at Beauvais, France in 1933, wiping out the best of that country's lighter-than-airmen, she ordered the R-100 scrapped, has built none since. Only country to pursue the development is Germany, where the huge Hindenburg is soon to be launched as a running mate to the eminently successful Graf Zeppelin. This summer the Navy plans to lend its Lakehurst plant to the Zeppelin company as a U. S. terminal for an experimental transatlantic mail & passenger service...
...celebrate today this year with great festivities the reason is the sorrow that we feel in view of the death during the past year of the man [Hindenburg] who two years ago entrusted me and therewith the National Socialist movement with the leadership of Germany. We all contemplate with deep emotion the link that led our movement so symbolically from the past into the future...
...typhus broke out in Serbia. In six months it killed 150,000 Serbs, 30,000 Austrian prisoners. Spreading to Russia, it infected 25,000,000 people, killed 3,000,000. Hindenburg feared to move German troops from the infected Russian border to the Western front...
...clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema audiences by "sneak" previews. By October the editors had made two important discoveries...
...Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short-lived Second French republic (the equivalent of Hitler's term of office under Hindenburg), of taking over some of the elements of Socialism into the new State which he promised. Where Hitler got the Socialist planks for the "National Socialist" platform from the hated German Marxians, Louis got his ideas from Louis Blanc, French radical. And to carry out his ideas, Louis...