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Stamping the concrete floor to keep warm, a shivering crowd surrounded the silver hulk of the ZRS-5 in the 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...
...group mounted a bunting-draped platform beneath the airship's bow, just forward of the control car. The band changed to "Anchors Aweigh." There were speeches. On behalf of his city Mayor Toole presented to Commander Alger Herman Dresel a silver service for the ship's wardroom.* Someone handed Mrs. Moffett a red-white-&-blue cord suspended from the airship. Declaiming "I christen thee Macon!", she yanked the cord. Two hatches in the underside of the Macon's snout flopped open, spilling out 48 alarmed pigeons which flapped excitedly about the dock. Thirty-four of the birds...
Newspicture of the year, nominated by INS:?sailors dangling and falling from a rope beneath the airship Akron...
...John L. Morris, Manager, Chamber of Commerce, Macon, Ga. has a letter in your July 25 issue in which he advises that the Macon delegation waved no flags on the occasion of their visits to the plant in which the new Navy airship Macon is being built, in fact states that Maconians are no flag-wavers...
...curious to know why he states this with so much apparent relish. Out & out pacifists might rejoice in refraining from waving the American flag, and if this is Macon's attitude, why name a fighting airship of the U. S. Navy after...