Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time in Akron, Ohio an important milestone was passed in U. S. dirigible development. On the strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron at the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, wrote his signature on documents that meant "preliminarily accepted." At that moment she became Navy property and the contract for construction on her sister ZRS-5 became effective...
...Zeppelin is currently under command of Captain Ernst Lehmann) was on hand to see her and to chat with his old friends, famed Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl and Designer Arnstein (who also designed the Graf Zeppelin). He watched with them while the ground crew "squeezed" the Akron into the dock alongside the Los Angeles with only 15 ft. to spare. Side by side, the Akron made the doughty old Los Angeles look nearly as small as the little J-ships used to look alongside the Los Angeles...
...days and nights last week the newly built Akron went through her ninth, last and most rigorous testflight for Navy inspectors. From her dock at Akron she flew to Cincinnati, thence along the Ohio River to Louisville. By night she flew west across Indiana and Illinois and made a surprise visit over St. Louis just before midnight. Early next morning she crossed Chicago, spent the forenoon idling along the shore of Lake Michigan. Thence to Milwaukee, and back to Chicago in the afternoon to thrill the crowds at the Yale-Chicago football game before heading east for Akron. Next...
...second race of the afternoon, the Winthrop House crew barely managed to nose out by half a dock length the Eliot House boat, which stuck close to Winthrop House the whole of the three quarter mile stretch. A combination crew made up of men from several different houses also participated in the same race, but was outclassed by its more experienced and stronger rivals...
...gargantuan orange-peel doors of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron slid open one sunny afternoon last week and the biggest dirigible ever built moved slowly out, stern first, pushed by the mobile stub mooring-mast at her bow. For this moment of ideal weather officials of Navy and Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had waited for days. The low hills which make a natural amphitheatre of Akron's municipal airport were black with automobiles and spectators. The Akron...