Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macon made a shipshape 70 hr. flight from Lakehurst, N. J. across the southern states to Sunnyvale, Calif., near San Francisco, where she was berthed at her new base, Moffett Field. The Lakehurst station will be kept open for training in the metalclad airship ZMC-2 and nonrigid ships...
...Lakehurst Naval Air Station, instead of being decommissioned, should be the Navy's airship training centre...
...airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole is Sunnyvale, newly completed Naval airship base for the Pacific Coast. Last week Sunnyvale was preening itself to become the home of all Navy LTA. since the Navy had announced that the station at Lakehurst would be decommissioned "in the near future." With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base. Besides the sugarloaf dock at Sunnyvale, a huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium...
...Francisco exulted last week, a town in New Jersey mourned. That town was Lakewood (pop. 5,000). Jewish winter resort, known for good Jersey applejack, for the beer at its Elks Club, for John D. Rockefeller's estate there (which he seldom uses). Lakewood was "town" for the Lakehurst Naval Air Station five miles away. It thrived on the station's $500,000 annual payroll, and on the visitations of newshawks and sightseers, all of which are now lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection...
Long a subscriber to TIME, he will be greatly disappointed if copies of your magazine are not sent to him at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J. where he awaits further orders...