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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building at Akron the largest airship factory and dock in the world. Its floor is a vast concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch the ceremony of fastening the first sections of the first...
...shortly after noon. Light through the girders and from many searchlights fall on a comparatively diminutive fabric of duralumin lying at one end of the dock. The duralumin section is 50 ft. long, 10 ft. high, and just one arc of the 133-ft. diameter ring which is to be the "keel" of the airship. A rope on standards marks off the round of the ring-to-be. Within the circumference are 400 dignitaries, official guests, each with a 3-in. disk of duraluminum, memento of the "ZRS-4 Ring-Laying...
Schenectady High School of Schenectady, N. Y., won the annual Harvard interscholastic cross country run Saturday morning with the low total of 65 points, thereby keeping its record of being undefeated in interscholastic meets during six years unblemished. The outstanding school in the preparatory race was Newark Prep of Newark, N. J., which finished with a low total of 35 points...
...high school group, Schenectady was decidedly superior, its first five runners finishing in third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh positions, for the winning total of 35. Although it came in second in the final scoring, Newtown high school of Elmhurst, Long Island, had the two fastest runners of the meet. Arthur Cooperman and Edward Wells of the New York school took the lead about half way along in race, and were never headed to the finish. They showed as good speed as has ever been seen in the schoolboy meet, and their team placed second only because the other three...
Arlington high was the first New England school to place, turning in a score of 123 points for a poor third. G. Buckley of Arlington was the first of his team to finish, arriving in fourteenth place. The course measured about three and one-half miles, being three trips around Soldiers Field...