Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst advanced $200,000 to finance the Graf Zeppelin's globe-trot. In return, correspondents for his newspapers and his alone (in the U. S.) were carried on the flight. When Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener steamed up New York Harbor last fortnight on an official welcoming tug after getting back to Lakehurst, eager Hearst photographers snapped him and snapped him; eager Hearst editors spread the photographs on flaring Hearst pages in the grand finale of Publisher Hearst's world "scoop" of the flight...
Married. Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, 40, Australian polar flyer. Graf Zeppelin passenger and Hearst correspondent; and Suzanne Bennett, 28. Australia-born actress (Vanities, The Cyclone Lover); in Cleveland...
...Boston, racing from Philadelphia). Injured: Lady Mary (Sophie Elliott-Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...
...Last week a modern German conquerer, Commander Hugo Eckener of the Graf Zeppelin declared: "I have never thought such enthusiasm possible as that manifested when we circled Chicago...