Word: friedrichshafen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zeppelin Tour. Having taken its first spring jaunt to Jerusalem (TIME, April 8), the Graf Zeppelin took its second, last week, to the Madeira Islands. Rising from Friedrichshafen one afternoon with 20 paying passengers, Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease...
Zeppelin Tour. Swift and sure the Graf Zeppelin accomplished its long frustrated Mediterranean tour last week? 5,208 miles in 81% hours. Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener guided her through varied weather over the historical sites?from Friedrichshafen, over the Swiss Alps, Corsica, Rome, Pompeii, Crete, Cyprus, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Greece, Albania, Jugoslavia, Vienna, and home to Friedrichshafen. April 15 he will begin another Mediterranean cruise, then in May two cruises...
Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, retired brigadier-general of the New York National Guard. And while German crowds howled their hochs at the Graf Zeppelin's safe, record-breaking return, General Kincaid growled his grouch at U. S. aviation...
...shouldered through it, over-fog-clouded Nantes, over hazy Tours, over Lake Constance. The Hallowe'en moon watched him. And as the sun rose for All Saints' Day he dipped his Graf Zeppelin's nose down towards the howling German crowds and his hangars at Friedrichshafen...