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Last week when Germany's von Hindenburg floated up from Friedrichshafen for its first crossing to South America, the German Press was overflowing with news of this hugest of all dirigibles. In the midst of the furor, the Press was abruptly ordered to drop all mention of Dr. Hugo Eckener. Reported reasons: No Nazi, the doughty, pouch-eyed old aeronaut had refused to make an election statement endorsing Adolf Hitler, had unsuccessfully opposed using the von Hindenburg in the election campaign, had successfully opposed naming it Hitler...
...France's 1935 defense budget of $792,000,000 is the hugest peacetime appropriation in her history. And last week the Chamber of Deputies upped the Army conscript period from 12 to 18 and 24 months for the next five years while the lean "War Baby" classes are being called to the colors...
...well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest passenger planes. To California William Randolph Hearst...
...Champion Sarazen's extraction is Italian, ex-Champion Burke's is Lithuanian (Bur-kowski). Champion Dutra's forbears were, with the Espinosas. among California's early Spanish settlers. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 230 Ib., Dutra is one of the game's hugest players. Abroad last year with the Ryder Cup team he was caricatured as King Kong...
Victory? In July the smoke of battle lifted enough to permit a survey of positions won and lost. Bull-dogged little Lord Beaverbrook, having forged into the lead, triumphantly shouted that his Express had 2,054,000 daily for the month of June-hugest daily circulation ever recorded! The Herald, which started it all, had clawed past the Mail to a mark of 2,000,000. The Mail in third place had 1,850,000, the News-Chronicle...