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Heet and the rate of building,
At the end of 1912," he writes, "Ger- many possessed more than 30 dirigibles of various kinds; but how any she has to day ninbody outside the highest military
kanwa I have had a very interest-his work well.
irgins
ing conversation on this subject with German
manutictarer,
who holds the patons of an article is indispanable to the construction of dirigibles.
THAT IN
I do not know myself, he said. "The
exset figure of the German air fact, but I
cannot believe that it bas increased since
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