Word: lehmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Captain Max Pruss, who went to work for old Count von Zeppelin in 1911, had made 170 flights across the Atlantic. Last year he commanded the Hindenburg on one flight from Lakehurst to Frankfort and on several to South America. As his adviser came famed Captain Ernst Lehmann, second only to great Dr. Hugo Eckener as a dirigible expert. He began flying airships in 1912 and was the man who conceived and supervised the Zeppelin raids on London. Tired old (65) Dr. Eckener, with full trust in his two subordinates, was last week off on a vacation...
...conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled to the skin in back, his hair ablaze, his face rutted with third-degree burns, wandering about babbling: "Das versteh' ich nicht!" (I don't understand it) over & over. Another led out Captain Pruss, his clothes mostly gone, his lips like two roasted sausages. A naked...
...eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew— Civilian Allen Hagaman—also died of burns. Most survivors were badly burned and three more crew and one more passenger presently perished. One of the first to go was Captain Lehmann. Just before he died he said: "I intended to stay with the ship as long as I could, until we could land her, if possible. But it was impossible. Everything around me was on fire. The windows were open in the central control cabin and I jumped about...
Died. Captain Ernst August Lehmann, 51, German Zeppelin commander; of burns suffered in the Hindenburg disaster; at Lakewood...
Though Flagstad is the Metropolitan's prime drawing card, its German wing- with Rethberg, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr, List-was the world's finest even before her arrival. When Edward Johnson became general manager, he knew better than to tamper with the wing that artistically and box-officially is his best. The Italian and French wings were in less happy state, and Johnson combed Europe last summer engaging fresh singers...