Word: zeppelined
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...celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor Castle was on fire, called the Windsor Fire Department. European telephone exchanges generally were jammed by excited or fearful inquiries...
When word of the Hindenburg explosion at Lakehurst, N. J. last spring was flashed to aged, vigorous Dr. Hugo Eckener, technical chief of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company, he gasped, "We must have helium." Though Germany has lost by accident 32 of the 120 Zeppelins she has built* there was no thought of abandoning huge lighter-than-air craft-as they have been abandoned in Great Britain, France, Italy and the U. S. With what General Goring clarioned as "unbending will," work was pressed on her sister ship, the LZ-130, commenced on another Zeppelin double in passenger capacity...
...others were lost in the World War-the rest, except for the Graf Zeppelin and the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst. were dismantled or forfeited to the Allies...
Britons on the North Sea coast remember that only 20 years ago they were tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
Main Tent. Each day of the political circus featured a different attraction in the centre ring. Most impressive: The march-past on the mammoth Zeppelin Meadow of the Arbeitsdienst-Nazi compulsory labor battalions. Forty thousand lads in rough khaki, 3,000 stripped to the waist, goose stepped past the Realmleader, mirrored thousands of times on the silver-blue spades they carried on their shoulders. Most beautiful: 22,000 alternate Nazi ranks, carrying flaming torches, wending their slow tramp along the search-lit walls of the turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon...