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...Corps' from 16,000 to 17,000. Declaring Government building costs greater than those of private manufacturers, the committee proposed to limit Government aircraft construction to experimental engines, primary training planes. Notably missing from the bill was any provision for airships to replace the crashed Shenandoah, Akron and Macon...
...closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet. Even so, she is 803 ft. long, 135 ft. high, holds some 7,000,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen, has nearly twice the bulk of the old Graf Zeppelin...
...black pot of race feeling was taken when copies of the Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge and the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution in Macon last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). Embellished with most extant photographs of Roosevelts & Negroes, this shoddy sheet shrilled...
When grey-eyed, Mississippi-born young Mark Ethridge returned from the War to his newshawking job on the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, he shortly lost all his pay in a crap game and, as a gesture of extreme indigence, showed up for work in his Navy uniform. Such traditional didoes did not impede Mark Ethridge's progress on the paper. Soon he was city editor, later managing editor...
Under Editor Ethridge the Macon Telegraph regained much of its oldtime prestige, became "South Georgia's Bible," and "The Georgia Bombshell." Editor Ethridge loaded his bombshell with many a charge of what in the South was authentic editorial dynamite. He derided the Ku Klux Klan. He came out for Negro rights. He sympathized with poor-white tenant farmers. He lambasted Prohibitionists. He took to task the paternalistic Mill Village system of potent Bibb Manufacturing Co. For such activities Editor Ethridge was tagged an outstanding U. S. Liberal...