Word: luftschiffbau
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When word of the Hindenburg explosion at Lakehurst, N. J. last spring was flashed to aged, vigorous Dr. Hugo Eckener, technical chief of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company, he gasped, "We must have helium." Though Germany has lost by accident 32 of the 120 Zeppelins she has built* there was no thought of abandoning huge lighter-than-air craft-as they have been abandoned in Great Britain, France, Italy and the U. S. With what General Goring clarioned as "unbending will," work was pressed on her sister ship, the LZ-130, commenced on another Zeppelin double in passenger capacity...
Built in three years in Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin's hangar on the shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit...
...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...
Getting dollars to replace pfennigs is almost as devious and difficult. The Graf Zeppelin was built by pfennigs. In 1925 the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin was virtually bankrupt. Two ships which it had built, the Nordstern and Bodensee (since wrecked) were confiscated by France and Italy for War damages. The Los Angeles the U. S. forced it to build. Dr. Eckener, great publicist,* organized the Zeppelin- Eckener Spends (gifts, alms) and despatched collectors with small boxes to German street corners, theatres, beer halls, to collect pfennigs from money-pinched patriots. The pfennigs totalled enough to build the Graf Zeppelin...
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