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...manned by workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls and goldbraided Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; and big-framed, white-haired Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., looking down...
...gelatin-latex treated cotton fabric, developed by Goodyear-Zeppelin for gas cells to take the place of goldbeater's skin (intestine of cattle) heretofore used in dirigibles. (To supply the Akron, the intestines of 1,500,000 cattle would have been required...
Last week it was announced that Mrs. Herbert Hoover will sponsor the Akron at the christening Aug. 8, at the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio. But Mrs. Hoover, practiced though she is at swinging bottles against bows, will swing no bottle of liquid air. The stuff is dangerous to handle, would instantly freeze any bit of flesh upon which it might splash. Instead Mrs. Hoover will set free a flock of white pigeons...
...Navy, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is liable for a penalty of $5 per Ib. for overweight up to 5,000 Ib., but last week it was questionable whether a penalty would be assessed since some of the excess may be chargeable to changes in Navy specifications. Said Rear Admiral William A. Moffett: "The Akron has been splendidly constructed, better than any dirigible within our knowledge. The slight excess in her weight ... is a direct conversion into increased safety and military factors...
...boast by Paul F. Kassay, young Hungarian, led to his indictment two months ago under Ohio's drastic criminal syndicalism law.- Kassay was a mechanic at the Goodyear-Zeppelin airdock where the Navy's Akron was being built. He bragged to workmen beside him that the great dirigible would never take the air because he was craftily leaving loose rivets in her frame. The workmen turned out to be U. S. Department of Justice agents who yanked Kassay off the job, turned him over to the State of Ohio to be prosecuted as a dangerous radical (TIME, March...