Word: adger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavernous airship dock at Akron, Ohio one day last week. A band of 325 high-school pupils blared "Dixie." From the dock offices athwart the bow of the airship marched Mrs. Jeannette Whitton Moffett, mother of two Naval flyers with her spry 63-year-old husband Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. With them came Goodyear-Zeppelin officials & wives, Mayor G. Glen Toole of Macon, Ga., eight beauteous Macon girls heavily bundled against the northern chill...
...entrants in the Miami Air Meet (see p. 24). He makes a point of entertaining potent people. At his New Year's Eve party he put on a paper cap and made much noise for his guests, Secretary & Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur. Last week Rear Admiral & Mrs. William Adger Moffett visited the Dohertys. If he had his way the "Winter Capital" would be Miami, not Washington or Warm Springs, and the Miami Biltmore would be the winter Mayflower...
Before crossing the mountains of Arizona on her recent return from the Pacific Coast, U. S. S. Akron released two airplanes from her belly, cut 6,000 lb. from her load (TIME, June 27). Last week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land...
White-headed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett spent a night last week aboard the U. S. S. Akron while she cruised over the sea. In the morning, off Barnegat, N. J. he decided it was time for him to start for his office in Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre...
According to Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of Naval Aeronautics, the Akron's overweight was largely due to extra strengthening "and doesn't materially affect performance." New propellers will bring her speed up to 72 knots. The Akron is "the best ship ever constructed," insisted the Admiral.* On the more spectacular charge of flimsy construction, Secretary E. C. Davidson of the International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary...