Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William C. State, 62, consulting engineer of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., inventor of a tire-building machine, builder of Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock; of complications following three months' illness; in Akron...
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...
...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 then streaked through the aperture of the great orange-peel doors. Outside, two of them (Miss Macon & Miss Georgia) detached themselves from the rest, bent a course for Macon 500 mi. away. The others, veterans of the christening of the Akron...
...workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
...face." No sooner was his steamer, the Terukuni Maru, inside Kobe harbor than police arrested three members of a terrorist club attempting to board the ship. Dr. Ozaki smiled at his two pretty daughters, then stepped down the gangplank to a waiting automobile. Other amateur assassins were on the dock. Two of them broke through a police cordon brandishing heavy cudgels, shouting "Wait, Ozaki, wait!" They too were arrested. Unruffled, Dr. Ozaki agreed to return to the ship, proceed from Kobe to Yokohama, less than an hour's train ride from Tokyo. He knew that other attacks would continue...