Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plopped into the sea. Of the large rigid airships built since the War only those of Germany have been successful-the Los Angeles, now in retirement at Lakehurst, the stalwart old Graf Zeppelin, still shuttling the South Atlantic after carrying some 13,000 passengers without harm, and the new Hindenburg, which runs as safely on the same route...
...Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, is the nation's No. 1 airship man. Week after week for years articles and speeches by Commander Rosendahl have peppered the pages of newspapers and aviation magazines. Dozens of expert committees have made reports agreeing with him. But until Germany's Hindenburg made its spectacularly successful flights last summer, Commander Rosendahl's pleadings bounced off the U. S. public like a topped golf ball off a frozen green...
...made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship of 2,500,000 cu. ft., a still larger one comparable to the German Hindenburg, which has a capacity...
...Italy's, except that hers had been committed after the World War, which was presumed to have ended aggression, but hadn't. ... As had happened in India and elsewhere, my preconceived ideals were reluctantly shouldered aside by less high-minded, practical considerations." After flying home on the Hindenburg, Webb Miller retreated last May to Connecticut to write his book...
...September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days...