Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coast Guard apprised them of 440 dangerous bergs. For this year some 250 bergs had been predicted.- Where are they? For Greenland glaciers calved their bergs and Arctic ice floes cracked up as usual. Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year...
...lives in the far reaches of Brooklyn. Wending his way afoot to that remote region, he habitually guides himself by the stars. Arctica, Sir George Hubert Wilkins expects to take his submarine Nautilus to the North Pole this summer. Dr. Hugo Eckener may meet him there with the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. If those tours de force come to pass, the world may acquire important stores of meteorological data. Both men want to add to man's knowledge of weather. The Maligin tour is also primarily a weather hunting trip. Indeed the main purpose of every serious current Arctic expedition...
...Graf over Egypt. Because the British Government was understood to object to the Graf Zeppelin flying over Egypt in its Mediterranean cruise of 1929, Dr. Hugo Eckener then tactfully let "unfavorable winds" blow the dirigible away from that course. Last week, however, the Graf flew to Cairo and the Holy Land not only with full British approval, but with Squadron Leader R. S. Booth of the British dirigible R-100 among its 25 passengers.* Arriving over Cairo a half-day ahead of schedule the Graf commander learned by radio that mooring preparations were not complete. He circled the city, dipped...
...French Government disappointed the Graf Zeppelin's passengers by stipulating that no photographs be taken over French soil. Cameras were collected by the crew, locked up until France's frontiers were passed...
...search for an island or stationary ice floe where a weather station might be built, and to thrill Hearstpaper readers. He has radio receiving and sending equipment in the ship, will steadily report the minutiae of his progress, just as the world cruise of Dr. Hugo Eckener's* Graf Zeppelin were reported by him. Lady Grace Drummond Hay and Karl von Wiegand...