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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be excused. However, since he is quick to catch "the spirit of discipline" in America, let him learn the following: America, Mr. Hanfstaengl, can be both highly flattered and highly insulted without showing her teeth. She loves to be called "energetic" and "idealistic," even though she has twelve million unemployed, and her leaders are caught in all sorts of selfish, materialistic ventures. She has what you call a "spirit of fair play" to an extent which ordinarily, despite certain of your glaring defects that are superficially repugnant to her, would induce her to welcome you at Harvard with...
...actually believed that Herr Goebbels meant what he said was Editor Welk of Die Grime Post, an agricultural weekly that once had a circulation of a million. Editor Welk returned from the meeting to tap out a mild little editorial headed "Mr. Minister, A Word Please" which suggested that perhaps Minister of Propaganda Goebbels might have lost touch with the public, shut in as he was by thousands of antechambers. The presses had hardly stopped printing the editorial before Editor Welk found himself in a concentration camp and his paper suppressed for three months. Only the mocking laughter...
...last year (New York-Syria, 5,657 mi.). Their plane, built five years ago by old Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland they ran into fog and motor trouble. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, 2,600 mi. short of their goal, they landed, having flown...
...flying more than half the domestic airmail it received one-third of all mail payments ($5,313, 000). and its manufacturing subsidiaries got about one-third ($5,623,000) of all Army & Navy aircraft expenditures. Over its 6,440 mi. of airways its planes flew more than a million miles a month-more than any other airline in the U. S. At cancellation it had flown 65,000,000 mi., was flying nearly half the passenger-miles of the whole U. S. air transport system...
...known individuals of Triceratops are from North American and eastern Asiatic deposits, and lived in the last Cretaceous period, sixty million to 105 million years ago. The head of a Triceratops has a great frill of bone spreading out over the neck from the skull proper, like a collar, and acting as protection against the carnivorous animals which lived in that period. They once roamed the eastern uplift of the Rocky Mountains from Alberis to New mexico in great members and many skeletal remains have been found...