Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a globe-trotting dowager, self-sufficient and completely self-assured, the Graf Zeppelin barged into and out of the U. S. last week on a schedule adjusted to suit herself. Having completed her 50th crossing of the Atlantic, she rolled up from Rio with 21 passengers including a 10-month-old baby, picked up Miami's Mayor Sewell, and made for Akron, Ohio. It was after dusk when Dr. Hugo Eckener pointed the ship's nose down through driving rain into the floodlights of the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail...
Next night the Graf set out with a load of distinguished deadheads for the much-publicized objective of her northern voyage-Chicago's Fair. She was to fly over the city about 9 a. m., but bad weather threatened. While most Chicagoans lay abed-before 7 a. m.-the ship slipped into Curtiss-Reynolds Airport where a ground crew of 250 soldiers hauled her to earth. She stayed long enough for a reception committee to escort Dr. Eckener ashore, cast off 25 minutes later, flew over the Fair on her way back to Akron...
...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...
...guest, a big arch 95 ft. high on which colored lights played all night and a cosy little arch. Short, rotund President Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
Lowell: Pringle, Illoway, r.e.; Todd, Graf, r.t.; DeBard, Buckley, r.g.; Wickersham, Lovett, c.; Reppun, Goddard, l.g.; Nottingham, Head, l.t.; Salls, l.e.; Parquette, q.b.; Roberts, Salou, r.h.b.; Higgins, l.h.b.; Wells...