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Fridtjof Nansen, 67, explorer, Rector of St. Andrews, High Commissioner of the League of Nations for relief work in Russia, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1922), arrived in Manhattan last week to raise $500,000 for a flight to the North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing...
...Hugo Eckener received the lighter-than-air trophy for his command of the Graf Zeppelin. His peer for 1927 was Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl of the U. S. S. Los Angeles. Lady Mary Bailey was the best woman flyer last year, Lady Mary Heath the next best. Each flew between London and Capetown, in opposite directions. "Best flyers" designated for various countries...
...week to the Bremen museum. No ordinary bale of cotton, this! It cost the Bremen Cotton Exchange about $3,500 although cotton usually costs about $124.80 per bale in Berlin.* This bale was the first ever to have crossed the Atlantic in the air. It was part of the Graf Zeppelin's cargo...
...British R-34's fast flight was from New York to England, and over a windblown distance 800 miles less than the Graf Zeppelin's return trip...
...gained headway towards the Bay of Biscay. There again a storm bumped him. But he shouldered through it, over-fog-clouded Nantes, over hazy Tours, over Lake Constance. The Hallowe'en moon watched him. And as the sun rose for All Saints' Day he dipped his Graf Zeppelin's nose down towards the howling German crowds and his hangars at Friedrichshafen...