Word: friedrichshafen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining ships are the "Los Angeles", which has not been used for several years, and the "Graf Zeppelin", which has circled the globe and made over 100 trips between Rio de Janeiro and Friedrichshafen...
Combining business with pleasure is being effectively done by Harry R. Mimno, Acting Dean of the Engeering School. Witness the Lilliputian Zoppelin which flies many times daily between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratories. At the end of the cableway which supports this busy aircraft are hangers, appropriately named Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst...
From Amsterdam a German line takes you to Friedrichshafen, arriving at 8:45 o'clock. The Graf Zeppelin, should it be sailing by any chance at this season, will get you to Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, January 6, where you may hop on Pan American's Southern Clipper and be in Miami on the following Tuesday and in Boston Wednesday morning, January...
...late revelers and early risers stood in the dim streets of Manhattan staring up into a grey-black sky. Across it, her four engines purring smoothly, soared the silvery bulk of the Hindenburg, world's largest dirigible, just in after her first crossing of the North Atlantic from Friedrichshafen. Germany. A searchlight reached up played over the fabric, came to rest on the swastikas on the rudder. Other lights on the airship twinkled back. Presently the 803-ft. sausage nosed into the haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There a huge crowd had lined...
...Half a dozen special newspaper correspondents aboard, however, recorded reams of trivial happenings. Most of the 51 passengers admitted they had difficulty remembering they were in the air, so steady was the motion, so familiar were the accommodations to steamship travelers. Dr. Hugo Eckener had shouted: "Auf, Schiff!" at Friedrichshafen at 9 p.m. An hour later practically all passengers had tired of peering at the lights of Germany, adjourned to the bar. Stewards wandered about with telegrams. A man played incessantly on the aluminum piano. Lady Wilkins had the honor of taking the first bath in the icy shower...