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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...
Exacting, sometimes exhausting, is the job of editing a national magazine. Editor Merle Crowell, head of the American Magazine since 1923, last week decided to obey long-disobeyed doctor's orders. He resigned his editorship, planned a long rest...
Engaged. Hunt Wentworth, assistant to the president of Curtiss Flying Service, grandson of Chicago's twotime (1857-1860) Mayor John ("Long John") Wentworth ; and Miss Eileen Smith; at Chicago...
...Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. was formed five years ago. Paul Weeks Litchfield, present president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber had visited Friedrichshafen, home of the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, where dirigible-building is an adult profession. Mr. Litchfield, who long before the War had induced Goodyear Tire & Rubber to build balloons, saw opportunity in dirigibles. He dickered with Dr. Hugo Eckener, as usual in need of construction money, for the American rights to build rigid airships and for the loan of some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener...
...largest airship factory and dock in the world. Its floor is a vast concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch the ceremony of fastening the first sections of the first airship with Dentist Roehner...