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...great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil, Manchukuo and China...
Built in three years in Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin's hangar on the shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit...
...offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that the pictures had been obtained in "The Wild Forests of Brazil." Elsewhere in the issue were text and pictures showing how "the famous German Professor Julius Lirpa" had perfected a method for extracting gold from the scales of fish...
...learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought a monoplane, and one calm night new to Natal, Brazil while the Spanish Cortes uttered sympathetic cheers. Meanwhile Maria almost spoiled matters by denying that they were engaged. But after writing some signed pieces for Universal Service about what a fine boy Juan was, she changed her mind...
...aboard the von Hindenburg as "supervisor." In command was seamy, seasoned Captain Ernst August Lehmann (TIME, April 6). Carefully de touring around France and Belgium, thus losing eight hours, the von Hindenburg passed the white cliffs' of Dover, swashed along at 58 knots over the waves toward Pernambuco, Brazil. Above the Equator the passengers were baptized not by the Sea's "Neptune" but by "Aeolus," god of the winds. One hundred hours out of Friedrichshafen, the von Hindenburg snored over Rio de Janeiro, was warped painfully to the mast at brand new Santa Cruz airdock. Thirty-seven passengers...