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...Departure of Graf Zeppelin for South America; from Friedrichshafen, Germany...
Graf Zeppelin to Rio. Of all the ocean-skimming trips predicted for 'ihe Graf Zeppelin this year, the one from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro this spring seemed most certain last week. Dr. Hugo Eckener last autumn indicated that such a trip would be across Spain, West Africa and the South Atlantic. But there is money in jaunting rich Americans to the U. S. So last week the route was promised as Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, to Rio?if the U. S. navy would grant permission to use its dirigible hangar at Lakehurst...
...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...