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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
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Subject: Re: Hydrogen (actually Lusitania)
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 15:09:22 EST
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> I believe that it was also mentioned as one 
> of the reasons for Germany's attack on the US ship that caused
> the US to enter WW I.

Now how could the Germans have known in 1917 that in the '30s we were
going to develop a method of extracting helium, and that we would
embargo that technology?  And why would that serve as a reason to
sink a British ship?  The Lusitania was a British trans-Atlantic
passenger liner, owned by Cunard.  (If anyone's interested, the "ia"
at the end of the name was a hallmark of a Cunard ship, as the "ic"
at the end of the name was a hallmark of the rival White Star line).
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