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MOSCOW'S NELSON TOUCH

The decline of Marxian

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PLANE CATAPULT

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HOW GERMANINVENTION WORKS IN PRACTICE

BIG FLYING-BOATS FOR NORTH ATLANTIC SERVICE

A protest is brewing in Blooms-M the Editer, and be accompanied by bury against the transfer of the Writer's Name and Address section of the district from the maniam into bourgeois respectabi- not necessary for insertion, but Museum exchange to the Enston flits continues apace.

The latest manifestation of this automatic Exchange. jes a guarantee of good faith.

Bloomsbury does not like being tendency is the announcement that of associated with Easton, and ob-the famous slogan, “Workers

World Unite." is to be jections are advanced by hotel the boarding house and fat pro eliminated from the arms of the Anteon of the Deutsche largest planes ever catapulted on

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(By Lauren D. Lyman)

MONG those who watched the, The Aeclus and Zephyr are the

that it was

Building Big Boats

ocean tra119–

In the place of this motto, hit-Lufthansa flying boat Aeolus for scheduled flights from a ship's They claim that visitors from Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 1936 Scotland, the North of England, berto emblazoned in 87 different the Azores by way of the most deck. They weigh, fully loaded. and abroad, when fixing their languages on a globe over which powerful catapult aboard ship ten tous each. The Schwabenland's London holidays, would be, "put straddles the hammer and sickle.janywhere in the world were many catapult sends them into the air off by a Euston telephone num-there is now to be an adaptation of representatives of American air without any great fuss from

Nelson's Trafalgar signal.

transport companies. They all standing start in 100 feet. The ber...

"Socialism expects that every agreed that it was interesting catapult accelerates from zero to Bloomsbury is a district of in-

they man will do his duty" is the much They were unanimous in the opin-80 miles or more an hour in the dividuality and tradition.

attraction of its less provocative message which the ion that it was a remarkable per-100-foot run. that insay, and the

And the limit has not been Disraeli's dictum

united conclusion polities "personality is every-dignified houses, the sunny lawns, Soviet arms will now offer to the formance. They also reached a

and trees in its world.

reached. The Germans expect to pretty expensive.

be sending 14-ton Dorniers into thing has been triumphantly flower-beds vindicated by the American famous squares, would be

with PROT-E-IN

Captain Alfred Kottas of the the air on their South American Presidential election, and the judiced by any association

Prof. Julian Huxley's commen-Schwabenland, one of Lufthansa's schedules this winter. They ex- pointed comment of the Kansas the less attractive district around

tary accompanying the new film, two catapult ships, put on two expect to return to the North Atlan- these larger, longer City Journal and Post is indeed Euston station.

Phone Number Counts

"Nutrition," should cure the ha-hibitions for his visitors recently.tic with

of justified: "Landon called social

a His is a dual role. He is skipper planes next spring for a series of The residents of a new block ofbitual mispronunciation security a cruel hoax, but it is

of the Schwabenland and he is twenty-four crossings before a not half as cruel a hoax as that luxory flats in one of the equares number of scientific words.

He pronounces vitamin with the jalso in command of the seroton perpetrated on the Governor by fare among those who are protest-

first "i" long, as its derivation ob-planes that use his catapult. Over] the Cleveland Convention whenjing. it nominated him. An amiable "One's phone number counts as viously requires, and sounds all and over again he emphasised the

point that this business of sendingį

Yet there are signs that Luft- man, competent in administra-strongly as one's address, and the three syllables in protein.

About laboratory, which, after trans-oceanic planes into the air tive affairs, was thrown to the new association with the Euston wolf by a desperate party." In district which has been thrust all, is a matter of taste, he esi- was not a stunt but was "work" haass does not believe that the fact, if the result of the elec-upon as has an unfortunate day-dently preserves an open mind. The Schwabenland is the second of catapult is to be the final answer

resident. "Wel

Once he emphasises the first syli-Lufthansa's catapult vessels. A in heavier-than-air

on port At the Dornier plant at tion was, as it has been held to our," said one

24 ton flying- able. Then again just as clearly third is about ready to go be, a clear vindication of de- would rather stay on Museum."

Subscribers on the Museum ex- he puts the stress on the second. duty and a fourth is now being Friedrichshafen

are being built for the mocracy, it was also the unmis-

constructed. The first three are boats

Atlantic' service, and if takable triumph of a personali-change will be transferred to the

converted freighters and the North ty. After three years of office existing Euston district in blocks

fourth is being built expressly for they are successful it is believed President Roosevelt still piques of a thousand:

as a mother ship for that they will replace the catapult The Erst to be transferred are

method of launching. However, America's curiosity and rivets

A small girl who detested its duties

trans-atlantic airplanes. attention, besides maintaining all being selected from the I--Z

for lunch. When she asked if she

Each ship has a crew of 60 or there is little doubt that the ac his invaluable capacity for coin-directory, so that their new num-padding had been made to eat some

could get down she was told to say more. The vessels are fuelled and Cumulated experience of the Ger- ing phrases which the plain bers may be published quickly. man at once includes in his

"But I've nothing to be thankful provisioned to stay st sex for mans in using the catapult will own vocabulary, feeling that he No complaints have been

weeks. They are floating sirports, fad some future use--possibly in well," said the mother, and the faith of the Germans in the new German Navy for bomb- has been on the point of coining ceived by the London Telephone for," she said sulicly.

himself. them

In these Service, a Post Office official said remain where you are."

their emciency is not based mere-ing planes or patrol boats. 2 few Where

was silence for

ssid on what they have respects Mr. Landon, for all his later.

"The Post Office is concerned minutes; then a little voice solid qualities, was eclipsed.

President Roosevelt also had with providing the most efficient Thank God I wasn't sick. Now may plished to date. the great mass of the nation service possible, and it is solely get down?"

Over the South Atlantic the which contemplate transocemic behind him psychologically. In with the abject of giving these

My agent telephoned me in great Dornier seaplanes have been flying but from domestic airlines examining his record of office subscribers a more efficient ser one comes to the conclusion ice that the transfer is being excitement: "Sold the rights to your carrying as high as 500 pounds of as well.

made," he added.

book in Germany, England, France! that it is not so much what be

"Imail No passenger service. "has **When we put up a new ex-land Sweden!" "Great," said L. has actually done as what he

ther anchorage off Port Washing- has started doing that has change, we try to choose a name get ten cents a book?" "Yes--but the been tried, and the suggestion that Visitors to the Schwabenland at publisher gets five." "Fine"" "I get A great carried him on the crest of the that fits the district lelectoral wave.

little enthusiat. Catapult. This development of an He proclaimed;

many people would complian if five cents?" "Yes, but the transistor Passengers be shot into the air as

three." "Ah, but the agent gets has met with that he could conquer

there were any suggestion of al-sets two. All right, I'll settle for a regular thing from a catapult ton found their way at once to the something tering the name of Euston Ex-two." "Good! I still make a cent." Nor has it been shown how a fleet:ancient siege weapon has an over- employment; yet.

There's a tax, you know.” Well of 2000-ton vessels, with crews of all length of 126 feet. It is mount ed on the port side of the vessel, like 20,000,000 Americans are change."

what DO I get out of it?" "It's 60 each, can be supported by well aft, with the take-off end of still unemployed in a country

great honour, you know, and it won't transoceanic mail loads of any have

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