"Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reamy Tom)
Kong, or as they name it in Sweden, Kong King.
And then my gaze clambered higher still, up the 222-foot sturdy tower, to the top of which was moored
the nose of the vast, breathtakingly beautiful, stream-linedj silvery shape which was making the shadow.
Now here is a most important point I was not at the time in the least startled by what I saw. I knew at
once that it was simply the bow section of the German zeppelin Ostwald, named for the great German
pioneer of physical chemistry and electrochemistry, and queen of the mighty passenger and light-freight
fleet of luxury airliners working out of Berlin, Baden-Baden, and Bremerhaven. That matchless Armada
of Peace, each titanic airship named for a world-famous German scientistтАФthe Mach, the Nerns*, the
Hum-bolt, the Fritz Haber, the French-named Antoine Henri Becquerel, the American-named Edison,
the Polish-named T. Skhdowska Edison, and even the Jewish-named Einstein! The great humanitarian
navy in which I held a not unimportant position as inter-
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national sales consultant and FachmannтАФI mean expert. My chest swelled with justified pride at this
edelтАФnobleтАФachievement of der Vat&rland.
I knew also without any mind-searching or surprise that the length of the Ostwald was more than one half
the 1,472-foot height of the Empire State Building plus its mooring tower, thick enough to hold an
elevator. And my heart swelled again with the thought that the Berlin Zeppelinturm (dirigible tower) was
only a few meters less high. Germany, I told myself, need not strain for mere numerical recordsтАФher
sweeping scientific and technical achievements speak for themselves to the entire planet.
All this literally took little more than a second, and I never broke my snappy stride. As my gaze
The Broadway I saw was utterly transformed, though at the time this seemed every bit as natural as the
serene presence of the Ostwald high overhead, vast ellipsoid held aloft by helium. Silvery electric trucks
and buses and private cars innumerable purred along far more evenly and quietly, and almost as swiftly,
as had the noisy, stenchful, jerky gasoline-powered vehicles only moments before, though to me now the
latter were completely forgotten. About two blocks ahead, an occasional gleaming electric car smoothly
swung into the wide silver arch of a quick-battery-change station, while others emerged from under the
arch to rejoin the almost dreamlike stream oftraflic.
The air I gratefully inhaled was fresh and clean, without trace of smog.
The somewhat fewer pedestrians around me still moved quite swiftly, but with a dignity and courtesy
largely absent before, with the numerous blackamoors among them quite as well dressed and exuding the
same quiet confidence as the Caucasians.
The only slightly jarring note was struck by a tall,
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pale, rather emaciated man in black dress and with unmistakably Hebraic features. His somber clothing
was somewhat shabby, though well kept, and his thin shoulders were hunched. I got the impression he
had been looking closely at me, and then instantly glancing away as my eyes sought his. For some reason
I recalled what my son had told me about the City College of New YorkтАФCCNYтАФbeing referred to
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