Word: airship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week the Associated Press got a request by longdistance telephone from the Minneapolis Star: could A.P. take color pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...
Died. Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, topflight tire-and-rubber man and Akron civic leader, longtime president (1926-40) and board chairman (1930-58) of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., developer of the first pneumatic tires for airplanes, early dedicated apostle of airship travel, manufacturer of blimps and military airplanes; following surgery; in Phoenix, Ariz...
Airman Thach confidently expects to learn the art-and soon. Says he: "This is like a chess game; each piece has a different value. By playing them together, by using the submarine-which has the biggest ears-and the aircraft-which has the longest punch-and the airship-which has the quietest touch-you win your game...
...airplane did not go away, and neither did Mitchell. Topping a series of crashes, the Navy airship, the Shenandoah, was ripped apart in an Ohio line squall. Thirteen officers and men were killed. Two days later Mitchell dropped a journalistic blockbuster. "These accidents," he announced to the press, "are the result of the incompetency, the criminal negligence and the almost treasonable administration of our national defense by the Navy and War Departments...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...