Word: adger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each performing his first duty of searching a prescribed area for stowaways. Then, with the ship moored in midfield, the first flight guests climb up the little stairway into the control cabin: Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls, Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zepplin, his vice president Designer Karl Arnstein, and many another. In all there are 113 persons aboard, more than a dirigible has ever carried...
...projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls and goldbraided Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; and big-framed, white-haired Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., looking down on his two bald-headed vice presidents Dr. Karl Arnstein, builder of 70 Zeppelins for Germany, and Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, U. S. N., retired, and his well...
Helium. The explosion of the 5,500,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen inflating the R-101 caused practically all the devastation. Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett of the U. S. Navy last week pointed out that if non-inflammable helium (gas next lightest to hydrogen) had been used the R-101 would not have exploded. British commentators had already noted this obvious fact, with the implication that the U. S., monopolist of the world's helium supply, had selfishly prevented any of the gas from being exported. President Hoover deemed this insinuation worthy of White House denial. The Department...
Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, learned that his son. Lieutenant George Hall Moffett, U. S. N., had been made Assistant Athletic Coach at Annapolis...