Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graf Zeppelin, stately in the Pacific sky, traveled last week from Tokyo to Los Angeles, 6,118 mi. in 75½ hrs. Celebration banquets and drinks at Tokyo gave Commander Hugo Eckener indigestion all the way over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining...
...noteworthy week for dirigible accomplishments beside the Graf Zeppelin's flight...
...Angeles, oldest of dirigibles (five years), made repeatedly successful tests over New Jersey and New York carrying a plane slung from a trapeze under the hull. The plane would detach itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep...
...Piano. In the baggage room of the Graf Zeppelin on her westward trip this year (TIME, Aug. 12) was a grand piano. In the salon was Pianist Gregoire Gourevitch. He thought it would be appropriate to play Wagner's opus picturing the Valkyries' ride above the clouds while his audience was similarly situated. As the piano did not fit into the Zeppelin's salon, Pianist Gourevitch and the Valkyries had to wait for his concert last week in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel...
Died. John Bennett Daniel, 29, of Manhattan, National Broadcasting Co. announcer, introducer of many a famed speaker (President Hoover and Coolidge), describer of many a famed event (Lindbergh reception, Graf Zeppelin arrivals at Lakehurst, inaugurations); in Manhattan...