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Full Circle. Ironically, the big nonrigid blimp was designed as an answer to the sudden death that had plagued the larger, rigid, lighter-than-air ships of the 1920s and '30s. The French Dixmude disappeared over the Mediterranean in 1923; the U.S. Navy's 680-ft. Shenandoah broke up in a storm over Ohio in 1925 ; the 785-ft. Akron splashed in the Atlantic in 1933; and her sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned...
...take their name from one of Haile Selassie's family names, trace back to the U.S. back-to-Africa movement led by Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey in the 1920s...
...Japan had lost. Simultaneously, SCAP's Information and Education Section set out to fill Japan's schools with teachers avowedly opposed to prewar Japanese policy. Thus encouraged, most of Japan's educators reverted to the Marxist beliefs so many of them had held in the 1920s. Nikkyoso, the 600,000-member Japanese teachers union, soon fell under Marxist domination. Preached at in their classrooms, often encouraged to skip school for political demonstrations, a whole generation of Japanese has grown up in an atmosphere of reverse McCarthyism...
...that by means of a chemical reaction on skin changes the color to a yellow or a reddish brown, withstands repeated washing. Andre worked for years on a Man-Tan formula, writing herb gardens all over the world for ideas. He claims he finally found the answer in a 1920s medical journal describing experiments with dihydroxyacetone, a chemical that doctors once used in the treatment of diabetes. The article noted that patients who swallowed dihydroxyacetone developed stained teeth. So Andre tried the chemical, and Man-Tan was the result. So successful has it proved (6,000,000 bottles sold...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author later found it advisable to become a docile party-liner, but in the 1920s, when he wrote the short fiction pieces in this paperback collection, he was one of Communism's most caustic satirists...