Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, retired brigadier-general of the New York National Guard. And while German crowds howled their hochs at the Graf Zeppelin's safe, record-breaking return, General Kincaid growled his grouch at U. S. aviation...
...Graf Zeppelin, now Germany's most famed airship, on her return flight from the U. S. to Germany, covered the 4,500 miles in 71 hr., 12 min. That was 10 hours faster than any of the four other trans-Atlantic airship trips. The record...
...national play for aviation manufacture, Cleveland last week lost another deal, recuperated on a previous loss. ^ The current loss was Goodyear Zeppelin Corp.'s proposed factory for building, first, two airships larger than the Los Angeles or Graf Zeppelin, and later, simi- lar ones. Cleveland wanted the industry. Los Angeles, San Diego and 100 other cities wanted it. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of both the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the affiliated Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., chose Akron, Goodyear headquarters...
...Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, director of the Zeppelin works, and Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry, are calmly enjoying their game of dress as Commander Rosendahl of the Los Angeles looks...
...hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane, a half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about the elephantine Zeppelin. One of them, a plane bearing news photographers, nearly brushed the hide of the ship, aroused the nervous ire of Eckener, who frantically waved the annoying flea away, but not before excellent shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near the Harlem River...