Word: cardington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experimental dirigibles, the R-100 (709 ft. long) and the R-101 (730 ft. long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled...
...Empire Premiers in England for the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) journeyed to Cardington, Bedfordshire, last week and were shown the giant air liners R-100 and R-101 now building under a shroud of mystery for the London-Cairo-Bombay air service scheduled to open next year (TIME...
Momentous Formula. Though the Empire Premiers wandered far afield to Cardington, they took on their return a step momentous in the history .of the Commonwealth. After weeks of phrase juggling they agreed at last upon a formula defining exactly, for the first time, the status of the Dominions: "The position and mutual relations of the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions may be readily defined. They are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status and in no way subordinate one to the other in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs...
Thayer Fellowships to Howard K. Beale 2G., of Chicago (history); Arthur S. Campbell of Upland, Calif. (zoology); Harold Golder of Cannon Falls, Minn. (English); Walter B. Smith of Cardington, Ohio, instructor in Economics, University of Minnesota (economics); and Joseph L. Zimmerman 4G., of San Francisco (philosophy...
Thayer Fellowships to Howard K. Beale 2G., of Chicago (history); Arthur S. Campbell of Upland, Calif. (zoology); Harold Golder of Cannon Falls, Minn. (English); Walter B. Smith of Cardington, Ohio, instructor in Economics, University of Minnesota (economics); and Joseph L. Zimmerman 4G., of San Francisco (philosophy...