Although the destruction of the Hindenburg three weeks ago was the most completely witnessed aerial disaster in history, the subsequent Department of Commerce inquiry at Lakehurst droned along inconclusively for two weeks until uprose a man who had been in Austria when the great dirigible burned. Although he had not seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and...
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