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Graduated by Virginia's Polytechnic Institute in 1895, young Dodd went to Germany, took his Ph. D. at the University of Leipzig. Later he taught history at Randolph-Macon, went to the University of Chicago in 1908. A professorial friend of Professor Woodrow Wilson, he went frequently to the White House, in Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson...
Awarded. To Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, 46, vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (builders of the Akron and Macon): the 1933 Daniel Guggenheim Medal for notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics...
...Naval airship base for the Pacific Coast. Last week Sunnyvale was preening itself to become the home of all Navy LTA. since the Navy had announced that the station at Lakehurst would be decommissioned "in the near future." With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base. Besides the sugarloaf dock at Sunnyvale, a huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium repurification plant, a 2,000,000-cu. ft. helium tank (like a city gas tank), two other tanks each...
...town" for the Lakehurst Naval Air Station five miles away. It thrived on the station's $500,000 annual payroll, and on the visitations of newshawks and sightseers, all of which are now lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection by Congressional committeemen. It might then be many weeks before summer thunderstorms over the Southwest would permit the Macon to cross the continent. However, canny Captain Alger Herman Dresel of the Macon was equally intent on getting his ship direct from Akron to the Pacific without...
...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...