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Sued for Divorce. Nelson Morris, grandson & namesake of the founder of Morris & Co. (Chicago meatpackers), by Jeanne Aubert Morris, French legitimactress; at Versailles. Grounds: desertion. Since he flew around the world on the Graf Zeppelin he has not gone back to his wife...
Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...
Around the World via Graf Zeppelin (Hearst). Mountains, cities, woods, rivers, steppes, cheering crowds. Chicago, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have been photographed from the air hundreds of times. As seen from a window of the Graf Zeppelin they are not any more exciting than they have been in the past. Only a sense of the topical connection of these particular scenes and the unlikelihood that a camera could go around the world in a dirigible without finding anything interesting keeps you watching till the end. Apparently the unlikely has happened. There is a synchronized sound accompaniment, but that...
...Capacity of the Graf Zeppelin is 3,710,000 :ubic feet, of the British R-100 and R-101, 5,000,000 cubic feet each, the Los Angeles 2,500,000 cubic feet...
British Dirigible. Five years ago the British government decided to build two experimental dirigibles, the R-100 (709 ft. long) and the R-101 (730 ft. long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they...