Word: lakehurst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes were dispatched from Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station and the Lakehurst, N.J., Naval Air Station. Six Coast Guard cutters near the scene were given the emergency "go" signal, and two commercial vessels in the vicinity raced in to help...
Swell! The Journal shed manly tears at her departure-"Against the well-planned schedules of her rivals, Dorothy has only her wits and the brave heart that beats under her trim little jacket"-and proudly published the note that came fluttering down from the Hindenburg's gondola in Lakehurst, N.J.: "Goodbye, America. I'll be right back." In Frankfort 58 hours later, Dorothy was given a royal welcome by Nazi General Franz von Epp, Governor General of Bavaria, who called himself her "godfather in Germany" and suggested another date. But Dorothy pressed...
...Dunwalke. an estate in Far Hills. N.J.. that his father has owned since 1920. A wiry child who could read swiftly and understandingly at the age of four, Dillon was sent to be educated in private schools. The most challenging was the Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst. N.J., whose headmaster insisted that his every pupil learn the art of reading fast-and Dillon today riffles through even technical papers at 400 words a minute. While at Pine Lodge. Dillon met and became friends with three heirs to another no table fortune: Nelson. Laurance and John Rockefeller...
...Lakehurst, N.J., last week Captain Marion H. Eppes, commander of the naval air station, received orders to suspend the U.S. Navy's blimp program. By next December, all but two of the Navy blimps still in service-on shore patrol and early-warning defense missions-will be deflated and folded away; within another few months, the last of the Navy's "bloopy bags" will disappear from the skies. And so will end an often disastrous, but sometimes glorious saga of the nation's military history...
...more than a million miles before it was decommissioned in 1937. But after three disasters, when the U.S. Navy's dirigibles Shenandoah, Akron and Macon were wrecked with a total loss of 83 lives, the U.S. abandoned its rigid-airship program. The spectacular explosion of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst in 1937 put a final end to the dream of Zeppelin...