henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/18/89)
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) >From: cperlebe@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (Chris Perleberg) >Tune in tomorrow for the story of the Naval Air Station in Oklahoma. Don't laugh. Why do you think the Navy got so heavily into airships in the 1920s and 30s? Well, yes, they were militarily useful and so forth. However, they also were a way of maintaining a very conspicuous presence, with big "NAVY" markings, far inland where most taxpayers had never seen a warship. Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu