Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing ineffectiveness of the Communist movement in Germany. Ernst Thaelmann, former dockyard worker, was named in her place. He is a more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight to the North Pole. He announced that Roald Amundsen would not be invited to go along, since the German people still resent Amundsen's bitter anti-German spirit during...
...Armour was radio operator of the ship. He kept a log of the flight. Excerpts...
...Commander Lansdowne was very much opposed to making the flight at this time, and he advised the department accordingly. Having been born in the Ohio Valley, he knew weather conditions out there and had some fear of them." may rest throughout the years...
...Said Secretary of the Navy Wilbur: "Captain Landsdowne fixed his own time for making the flight into the Middle West, and was also given absolute discretion as to the route to be followed going and coming. He did not think the flight should be made during the months of July and August. His wish to defer the voyage from July to September was complied with by the department...
...Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, planning to fly from Middletown to Westfield by airplane, hearing of the Shenandoah's disaster abandoned his flight. The reason given was that the landing field at Westfield was not as "ideal as supposed...