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...Great dirigibles, constructed of alloy metals and as large as passenger litters, will take care of the trans-Atlantic trade of the future," affirmed General Umberto Nobile, constructor of the airship Norge, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. General Nobile spoke at the Harvard Union last night on his flight to the North Pole...
...lighter than air craft will never have to compete with air planes for transportation privileges. An airship is capable of carrying so much more, with a greater degree of safety than an airplane, that all long distance carrying will necessarily be monopolized by dirigibles...
...have proved to my own satisfaction that an airship can last through very severe storms and can survive in weather that would keep airplanes from taking flight at all. The Norge experienced the climatic changes of four different zones and withstood them without any difficulty...
...Then he put an end to all the press stories about his reputed differences with Nobile: "I want to give Roald Amundsen 100 percent credit for the whole flight. It was his idea. He organized it and put it through. . . . I give credit to General Nobile for building the airship and for captaining it across the Polar...
Mussolini, an Italian, declared last May 18, that the passage over the North Pole by the airship Norge was "an enterprise which could have been conceived and carried out only by superior beings," among whom, at that time, Mussolini deemed worthy of inclusion in his "fervent and heartfelt" congratulations Nobile's employers, Explorer Roald Amundsen, the brains; Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, the moneybags...