Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roar of Zeppelin engines is a horrid sound to British ears. Last week 100,000 of His Majesty's subjects, gathered in the presence of George V and Queen Mary at famed Wembley Stadium, booed and jeered the Graf Zeppelin...
...from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...
...Washington, Dr. Eckener received the medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...
...Janeiro, the Graf Zeppelin will make her first South American landfall, but probably will not stop. She will proceed to Pernambuco, Brazil, where a mooring mast is being erected. To refuel the Graf, no facilities exist at present in South America...
Hydrogen generating apparatus, 140 tons of crude chemicals, and a kite balloon capable of holding 35,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen (while it is being pumped into the Grafs gas cells), pyrofax (65%) and hydrogen (35%) to be mixed and stored in the Graf's ballonets as motor fuel, all were shipped last week to Pernambuco from Lakehurst...