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May 8, 1936

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HINDENBURG COVERS HALF OCEAN FLIGHT; IS DUE TOMORROW; Dirigible Touches 80 Miles an Hour as She Speeds 'Like Mad' Toward New York. AIDED BY CLEAR WEATHER Airship Overtakes Normandie -- Graf Zeppelin Is Forced to Fly Over France. THE HINDENBURG FLIES FAR OVER THE OCEAN HINDENBURG FLIES HALF OVER OCEAN

By Lady Drummond Haycopyright, 1936, By the New York Times Company and Nana, Inc.wireless To the New York Times

ship repts position half way across Atlantic; favorable winds permit speed of 80 miles per hr or better, putting her ahead of schedule (Lady D Hay); Dr Eckener gleeful at prospect of beating Normandie's record; NBC repr broadcasts

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Oswald Spengler

1936Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (born 1880)[†]

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan.