Word: friedrichshafen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. was formed five years ago. Paul Weeks Litchfield, present president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber had visited Friedrichshafen, home of the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, where dirigible-building is an adult profession. Mr. Litchfield, who long before the War had induced Goodyear Tire & Rubber to build balloons, saw opportunity in dirigibles. He dickered with Dr. Hugo Eckener, as usual in need of construction money, for the American rights to build rigid airships and for the loan of some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener...
...National City's Chairman. Charles Edwin Mitchell was at sea last week, returning from a conference with Dr. Eckener and President Jakob Goldschmidt of the Darmstadter and National Bank. He had Dr. Eckener's declaration that a year will be necessary to enlarge the Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen and another year to produce the first regular trans-Atlantic airship...
Because Germany's great aircraft builder Dr. Claude Dornier frankly told the right U. S. industrial leaders last spring that he needed money to expand his manufacturing plants at Friedrichshafen, General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan last month went over to Friedrichshafen with a staff of engineers. They looked over the Dornier plant, machines and blue prints. They saw the 12-motored Do-X, which last fortnight carried 169 passengers over Lake Constance. Result was that Mr. Sloan bought for General Motors the licenses to manufacture Dornier planes in the U. S. General Motors lawyers immediately busied themselves...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...
Relatively easy, though not simple, were those stipulations for Dr. Eckener. With passengers, plus air mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days...