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...Last week the Dornier company announced it will move its plant from Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance in the Alps, to Wismar Bay on the Baltic. The Lake Constance site, where the Zeppelin works also is situated, is too far from the sea for efficient testing and servicing of seaplanes. At Wismar Bay the new Dornier plant will be handily near an important base of Luft Hansa...
...Eckener spent the day in Chicago, visited the Fair, received a dinner in his honor at the swank Union League Club where German Ambassador Hans Luther loudly flayed critics of Hitler. Before re turning to Akron to pilot his Graf home to Friedrichshafen via Seville, he had a ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache...
...does every time he visits the U. S., bluff old Dr. Eckener assured newsmen they would see transatlantic airship service as soon as U. S. bankers round up enough money. In Friedrichshafen the LZ-129 bigger than the Macon and twice as big as the Graf Zeppelin, has its skeleton nearly complete. In Akron the designing staff of Goodyear-Zeppelin is working on plans for a similar commercial ship to be built there and operated alternately with LZ-129 But bankers and builders know that no service will start without assurance of substantial U. S. mail subsidies...
...Graf Zeppelin cast off from her Friedrichshafen mast for the 347th time, headed over the ocean for the 50th time, carrying her 8,697-th passenger and 100 white mice to Brazil, thence to Chicago...
Sixth Season- As she has done every year since 1928, the sturdy Graf Zeppelin cast off last week from Friedrichshafen with a load of passengers, headed over the Atlantic. She was bound via Spain for Rio de Janeiro, on a monthly schedule to be maintained until August when service may be stepped up to twice-a-month. Fares are down...