Word: akron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dirigible bases are at Lakehurst, N. J., Akron, Ohio, Scott Field.; mooring masts at Detroit, Scott Field, Seattle, Honolulu, Fort Worth, Texas; small hangars at Langley Field, Va., Wright Field, Ohio, Aberdeen...
Besides these there were three new, surprise donations, for which Daniel Guggenheim gave yet another $500,000 last week: 1) $250,000 to the City of Akron (if the city raises a like amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute of Technology; 2) $140,000 for a Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress; 3) the balance to some southern university for an aeronautical school. Which southern university will get the money depends upon the proved enterprise of its faculty...
...some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener became a director/ Most important for the U. S. company was the transfer of Dr. Karl Arnstein, Prague-born chief engineer of the German company, to Akron...
Last week preparatory labors were almost done. Preparations consisted of building at Akron the largest airship factory and dock in the world. Its floor is a vast concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch...
...which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places the rivet in the proper hole, squeezes it with his little machine. The band plays "Pomp and Circumstance." The band then plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the gathering breaks up. That evening there is a dinner at Akron's Portage Country Club...