Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...
Around the World via Graf Zeppelin (Hearst). Mountains, cities, woods, rivers, steppes, cheering crowds. Chicago, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have been photographed from the air hundreds of times. As seen from a window of the Graf Zeppelin they are not any more exciting than they have been in the past. Only a sense of the topical connection of these particular scenes and the unlikelihood that a camera could go around the world in a dirigible without finding anything interesting keeps you watching till the end. Apparently the unlikely has happened. There is a synchronized sound accompaniment, but that...
...bankers have anticipated by at least two 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...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...
...Capacity of the Graf Zeppelin is 3,710,000 :ubic feet, of the British R-100 and R-101, 5,000,000 cubic feet each, the Los Angeles 2,500,000 cubic feet...