Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant wireless masts rise out of a sea of scrub oak, a baldheaded, wizened little Negro with God on his mind. He opened a free employment agency, found many a job for black men and white. Two years later he bought a small frame house at No. 72 Macon St., took in the homeless, fed them, clothed them, black & white. His disciples increased, his house grew, followers came on foot, in limousines, by the busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding parking for more than 30 minutes in Macon Street. Rev. Major J. Divine, the bald...
Unless the Macon is enlarged it will yield to the LZ-129 now abuilding in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as "world's biggest." To house this huge ship, specifically designed for the commercial purposes of Dr. Hugo Eckener, two hangars were thrown together. Replete with comforts for 52 passengers, the LZ-129 will next year go into regular service on the South American run. Unlike the Graf Zeppelin she will be inflated with non-inflammable helium. But because helium is much more expensive than hydrogen, Dr. Eckener plans to install fireproof hydrogen ballonets inside the helium cells for use in regulating...
...gargantuan hangar of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio continues to reverberate with pounding and riveting as the U. S. S. Macon, second of the Navy's modern dirigibles, slowly takes shape. If present specifications are followed she will be practically identical with her great sister. Like the Akron she will pouch a brood of planes. But, ship-like, she will have a sleeping bag for enlisted men. instead of the Akron's four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded...
...Bartholomew's was obliged to cut all salaries 10% last week. Said Dr. Clifton Macon, assistant minister: "Our receipts from parishioners have not been up to expectations. . . . The plates are getting heavier with collections now. It is silver, and not so many bills...
...Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837) of North Carolina, onetime Speaker of the House, onetime U. S. Senator, vigorous advocate of State sovereignty...