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...Thursday evening last week the huge pile of jalopies was touched off while firemen and some 25,000 others looked on. It made a magnificent bonfire, but its value as a publicity stunt was slightly vitiated by a somewhat larger blaze half an hour earlier at Lakehurst...
Radio Commentator Herbert Morrison was chattering thus idly into his microphone at the Naval airbase in Lakehurst, N. J. The Hindenburg had made ten round trips to the U. S. in 1936 and this arrival was being "covered" by radio only because it was her first of 1937, nothing sensational. In fact, Morrison's words were not going out over the ether. He was making an electrical transcription to be broadcast the next...
...round-trips there were 39 passengers aboard, none of headline importance. In command was 45-year-old Captain Max Pruss, who went to work for old Count von Zeppelin in 1911, had made 170 flights across the Atlantic. Last year he commanded the Hindenburg on one flight from Lakehurst to Frankfort and on several to South America. As his adviser came famed Captain Ernst Lehmann, second only to great Dr. Hugo Eckener as a dirigible expert. He began flying airships in 1912 and was the man who conceived and supervised the Zeppelin raids on London. Tired old (65) Dr. Eckener...
...childish "greetings"? One has a feeling that a German University would never be afraid to tell Harvard, if it did not want to come to one of our celebrations, the reasons for not wanting to come. The German spirit, the spirit of the airmen who met their doom at Lakehurst, would never have scrupled to make plain their feelings...
Accomplishing one of the most outstanding feats of modern news reel photography. Paramount Sound News brings to the screen the complete record of the recent Hindenburg disaster. The film shows the giant dirigible slowly lowering over the field at Lakehurst when everything seemed to be in perfect order. The sudden mass of flames, which enveloped it spread over the entire area of the ship with incredible rapidity...