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After this darkness will come the dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chatty Casandra | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Virginia Beach was ripped and torn apart by the surf. With its power turbines under water Norfolk was left in darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: $15,000,000 Storm | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

From a hillside near Konigsberg, East Prussia one morning last week a group of university students launched into the air a small sailplane named Loerzer of Grunau. In the cockpit sat a brown-shirted youth named Kurt Schmidt, 27, a philology student at Konigsberg and a Nazi Storm Trooper. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sailing Storm Trooper | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

A big moment at every fair is the grand balloon ascension. One night last week at the world's greatest fair. 40,000 persons crowded into Chicago's Soldier Field to see what promised to be the greatest balloon ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sailing Storm Trooper | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

Germany promptly denied it. Then the Dernieres Nouvelles of Strasbourg brought a report from Riga that the plane had been shot down by machine guns. Finally the London Daily Herald's Kovno correspondent boldly stated that the Lithuanian Government was convinced, was awaiting only final proof before demanding apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lithuanica | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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