Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey...
...that day and the next the Macon cruised down the rough, ragged shoreline while battleships and cruisers sported about on the Pacific below her. Off Santa Monica there was wind and rain but the airship had often bucked worse weather without trouble. By the time the Macon was ready to turn around and start for home, the little storm was practically over and the air had cleared enough for persons on shore to see her red and green lights flashing through the dusk...
...Macon, Ga., 50 men and women sat down with determination on a railroad track so that a switch engine could not take carloads of cotton goods from the Payne Mill of Bibb Manufacturing Co. At Manchester, N. H., the Amoskeag Mills, largest single cotton textile factory in the U. S., shut down its chemical plant, then closed completely. In Manhattan, the "Explosion Conference" of underwriters announced that insurance rates on textile mills and mill villages, due to "riot or civil commotion," should be forthwith tripled. At Gastonia, N. C., heart of the Southern textile belt, the Loray Mill of Manville...
...Watching the dirigible Macon nose its way out of a cloud accompanied by two baby airplanes, hover overhead, drop a bundle of newspapers on the Houston, and head back for its Sunnyvale, Calif, base, 1,200 miles away...
...Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, U. S. N. retired, aircraft designer (Shenandoah, NC-4), onetime chief of navy aircraft design, head of the department of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (Akron, Macon...