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There lay the real cause of the Hindenburg disaster, for Germany has no helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual...
...buzzed uneventfully to England, landed at North Weald. 15 mi. from London, to get his bearings, then went on to Croydon. His time: 21 hr. 3 min. His purpose: to fly pictures of the Coronation back to the U. S. He did not take with him newsreels of the Hindenburg disaster because London did not want that tragedy to punctuate its Coronation gaiety...
After four days, practically all Hindenburg patients had been discharged or transferred from the small New Jersey hospitals. In Dr. Buermann's hospital remained only seven of the original 26. The emergency was over. From now on only the regular grist of motor accidents would come in. But next month Dr. Buermann will renew an old interest upon the arrival of John D. Rockefeller Sr. to whom he is June-to-September personal physician...
...roads; felicitates Chicago's Billy Whiskers on his release from a Florida work camp; recounts that Smokehouse Eddie is vacationing in Pittsburgh; records that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College...
Died. Captain Ernst August Lehmann, 51, German Zeppelin commander; of burns suffered in the Hindenburg disaster; at Lakewood...