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...long (since 1931) and so uneventfully has the Graf Zeppelin flown its schedule between Germany and Brazil that it is no longer news. Front-page news will be the launching this year of the LZ-129, world's largest dirigible (6,720,000 cu. ft.), now nearly complete at Friedrichshafen, Germany. Awaiting only the installation of its four big diesel engines and the equipping of navigating rooms and living quarters, LZ-129 will carry on where the Graf leaves off, warming the heart of futuristic President Vargas...
...Tell me, Herr Graf," said the Chancellor, "what I can do to insure French security and I will do it willingly, if it does not bring dishonor or menace to my country...
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...
...Eckener spent the day in Chicago, visited the Fair, received a dinner in his honor at the swank Union League Club where German Ambassador Hans Luther loudly flayed critics of Hitler. Before re turning to Akron to pilot his Graf home to Friedrichshafen via Seville, he had a ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache...
...does every time he visits the U. S., bluff old Dr. Eckener assured newsmen they would see transatlantic airship service as soon as U. S. bankers round up enough money. In Friedrichshafen the LZ-129 bigger than the Macon and twice as big as the Graf Zeppelin, has its skeleton nearly complete. In Akron the designing staff of Goodyear-Zeppelin is working on plans for a similar commercial ship to be built there and operated alternately with LZ-129 But bankers and builders know that no service will start without assurance of substantial U. S. mail subsidies...