Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week preparatory labors were almost done. Preparations consisted of building at Akron the 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...
...years the commercial transoceanic operation of dirigibles. As expected (TIME, Sept. 16), Manhattan's National City Bank interests organized the International Zeppelin Transport Corp. It will operate German-built dirigibles between Europe, North America, South America. National City's Chairman. Charles Edwin Mitchell was at sea last week, returning from a conference with Dr. Eckener and President Jakob Goldschmidt of the Darmstadter and National Bank. He had Dr. Eckener's declaration that a year will be necessary to enlarge the Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen and another year to produce the first regular trans-Atlantic airship...
...Dornier plant, machines and blue prints. They saw the 12-motored Do-X, which last fortnight carried 169 passengers over Lake Constance. Result was that Mr. Sloan bought for General Motors the licenses to manufacture Dornier planes in the U. S. General Motors lawyers immediately busied themselves last week, while Mr. Sloan was on his way back to the U. S., then incorporated the Dornier Motors Aircraft Corp. of America. The company is owned jointly by General Motors and Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America...
...General Motors owns a two-fifths and so practically controlling interest in Fokker Aircraft; 2) the other major owner of Fokker Aircraft is Western Air Express whose president Harris M. Hanshue (also Fokker's president) was in Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan...
...General Motors' present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane...