Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleaded with her over the telephone and cable and through the U. S. State Department not to sail on the Graf Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen. She did sail, early one fair morning last week, with Susi, female gorilla, 17 male passengers and the Zeppelin's crew of 40 (Dr. Hugo Eckener commanding...
British G.E.-U.S.G.E. No direct connection has existed between Gerard Swope's U. S. General Electric Co. and Sir Hugo Hirst's British General Electric Co.. Ltd., onetime (TIME, April 1, et seq.) prominent exponent of the Britain-for-the-British financial theory. Last week, however, such a connection was rumored in the report that British G. E. contemplated merging with Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., largest British makers of electrical equipment. Inasmuch as Associated Electrical Industries is about one-third owned by International Electric Co., and as this latter corporation is a subsidiary of U. S. General Electric...
Graf Zeppelin. With Germany's minister to Austria (Count Hugo Lerchenfeld) and the Austrian Minister of Commerce (Dr. Hans Schürff) aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then...
...first spring jaunt to Jerusalem (TIME, April 8), the Graf Zeppelin took its second, last week, to the Madeira Islands. Rising from Friedrichshafen one afternoon with 20 paying passengers, Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease. Coverage...
Gracious were the U. S. representatives, victory being the mother of magnanimity. Said their statement: ". . . never questioned the sincerity of Sir Hugo . . . not at all unsympathetic toward his desire . . . insisting upon property right . . . negotiations . . . uniformly pleasant . . . ability. . . integrity . . . greatest respect...