Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German engineers reported last fort- night that they had successfully used a piano wire to measure the invisible twisting of the great steel motor shafts which drive the liner Bremen. They attached a taut wire to the shaft, set it vibrating. Nearby they stretched another wire (not attached to the shaft) to the same pitch. So long as the tautness of the two vibrating wires remained the same, they gave the same note. When the steel shaft twisted a fraction of an inch, it stretched or loosened the attached wire immediately changing the pitch. This musical difference between...
...months the Cunard Line has been explaining that the big obstacle to constructing a monster British speed rival to Germany's Bremen and Europa was the matter of insurance. Insurance companies in the U. S. and Britain, boat-shy since the mysterious $3,000,000 fire on the Europa (TIME, April 8, 1929), were either too poor or too nervous to write a $30,000,000 policy. Last week the British treasury and the Board of Trade came to the rescue. They agreed to underwrite that margin of insurance on the great Cunarder's construction which cannot...
Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his Manhattan hotel, two hours ahead of other Bremen passengers. Since 1925 when the first was built, the Goodyear blimps (Pilgrim, Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Vigilant, Defender) have advertised the company by flying about the country...
...Undersecretary of the Treasury, like anyone else, may be expected to take a summer vacation. Fortnight ago when Ogden Livingston Mills slipped off on the Bremen for Europe, the U. S. Press paid scant attention. Before he could land in France, however, alert newshawks in Paris were cabling dispatches to their papers that French officials believed Undersecretary Mills was coming on a special mission for President Hoover, that he was to investigate European reactions to the new Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, and also to close negotiations on the problem of France's double taxation of U. S. subsidiaries doing business...
...weather they can endure, the more obviously necessary to them becomes Radio. It was not insignificant that the first plane to cross the Atlantic westward on a nonstop flight from one airport to another, found its way through Newfoundland fogs and magnetic disturbances almost entirely by radio. The Bremen, only plane preceding the Southern Cross, had no radio and was lucky to strike land where it did at Greenley Island...