Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business with pleasure is being effectively done by Harry R. Mimno, Acting Dean of the Engeering School. Witness the Lilliputian Zoppelin which flies many times daily between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratories. At the end of the cableway which supports this busy aircraft are hangers, appropriately named Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst...
...Akron and Macon 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...
...apathy to further U. S. airship experimentation. Against this defeatism a small devoted band of lighter-than-air enthusiasts has railed with indefatigable zeal. Leader and inspiration of this lively minority is Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, who survived the Shenandoah disaster and now heads the 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...
...officeworkers in Manhattan first glimpsed the Hindenburg's silvery nose. A tail wind sped her on to New Jersey. On a Newark roof a garage mechanic stepped backward to get a better view, crashed through a skylight to his death. The big ship floated over Philadelphia, returned to Lakehurst...
...dawn's crack, these gentlemen gathered at Lakehurst before 6 a. m. Loading the wealthiest cargo that ever went aloft, the dirigible circled over Manhattan until a heavy mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their...