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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London. The newspaper of world's largest circulation in any language, the London Daily Mail has been devoting 16 columns per day to the story...
...Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...
Pregnant with significance was the continued harmony existing, last week, between the Nationalist Government and their great, voluntarily subordinate ally: the Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest personal army in the world. Whether Feng will remain subordinate to the Nationalists, seize power by a coup d'état, or quietly wangle* himself into control of their Government is a question only now beginning to be answered...
Wondering if they had strayed by mistake into the Berkeley or the Savoy, guests followed host & hostess to the promenade deck, sat down in wicker chairs. Proudly, Commander Burney told them the R-100 is the world's largest dirigible, with a hull as big as many an ocean liner...
Elena was the favorite. Guienerve was the largest. Atlantic had won the last ocean race in 1925. A radio from Elena said that she was sailing beam to beam with the Atlantic. Passengers on liners peered at the horizon hoping to see a sail full of wind and salty adventure. Four little schooners-Mohawk, Niña, Pinta, Rofa-had set out from New York to Spain, a week before. They were expected to reach Santander at about the same time as the big ones. Little Niña, impish, came within seeing distance of the Cunarder Aquitania...