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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures enclosed by Reader Habicht shows the U. S. Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to the mast of the oiler Patoka at sea. The second picture shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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