Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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public with a profound 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...
Last week, however, Commander Rosendahl had reason to believe that his lighter-than-air pleadings were on the point of taking effect. At Washington, for several weeks, he had been advising a subcommittee of three from the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Commerce, appointed last summer at the suggestion of Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper.* Last week the sub-committee submitted a report to Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Monroe Johnson, suggesting: along with many a lesser recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that...
Recuperated from a five-month illness during which he underwent three operations for an intestinal ailment, pale Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Tom") Fendergast trudged out of Kansas City's Menorah Hospital 65 Ib. lighter than when he entered. Present weight...
...fall asleep in the big green chair and come dreams of springtime and zephyrs and lilacs and green pastures and awake cramped and sore but Madame has abandoned her seige for the nonce and my head is lighter. And up to call for my stiff-front shirt from the launderer, and to Kirkland House tonight to see John Gay there enacted his play "Three Hours After Marriage...
Another group of U. S. businessmen has been applying lighter-than-air pressure in Washington, to get the U. S. to re-establish itself in the rigid airship field. They could derive some encouragement last week from the annual report of Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Admiral Cook made, without change, the recommendations made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship...