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...worth of which (value of the stamps) had been sent to the Dessau post office, much of it from stamp collectors addressing U. S. friends asking that the cancelled stamps be returned. Next the pilots loaded in rations prepared by their good fraus: sausage, chocolate, zwieback, hard-boiled eggs, bananas, lemons, orange juice, tea. A bottle of fine brandy was rejected as too heavy. Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them goodbye. They climbed into the planes. With them climbed Hubert R. Knickerbocker, U. S. newspaperman representing the Hearst newspapers; also Baron Gunther von Huehnefeld, publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Bremen v. Europa | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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