Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Admiral August Ludwig von Schroeder, 79, "Lion of Flanders," Wartime commander of the German naval base on the Flanders coast, whence he directed Zeppelin raids on London, submarine attacks on Dover; in Berlin. He was one of twelve German admirals whose extradition was sought by the Allied Powers for the much publicized "judicial murder" of Captain Charles Fryatt, executed for trying to ram a U-boat with his noncombatant vessel...
Awarded. To Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, 46, vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (builders of the Akron and Macon): the 1933 Daniel Guggenheim Medal for notable achievement in the advancement of aeronautics...
...Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole is Sunnyvale, newly completed Naval airship base for the Pacific Coast. Last week Sunnyvale was preening itself to become the home of all Navy LTA. since the Navy had announced that the station at Lakehurst would be decommissioned "in the near future." With the Akron...
Sixth Season- As she has done every year since 1928, the sturdy Graf Zeppelin cast off last week from Friedrichshafen with a load of passengers, headed over the Atlantic. She was bound via Spain for Rio de Janeiro, on a monthly schedule to be maintained until August when service may be stepped up to twice-a-month. Fares are down...
...Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than-air service to South America. If successful. Lufthansa will co-ordinate the schedules of Dornier flying boats with the sailings of the Graf Zeppelin, making a weekly round-trip service...