Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though no appropriations are provided. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Good-year-Zeppelin Corp. announced that passage of the two bills this session would be accepted as authority to begin construction of the first of four 7,500,000 cu.-ft. ships, two for the North Atlantic service, two for a projected Pacific route. Even larger than the LZ-129 now abuilding in Germany, each ship will carry 80 passengers, 25,000 lb. of mail and express, will make the eastward passage in two and a half days, the westward in three. To expedite the mails, the Federal Government will...
...International Zeppelin Transport Corp. (backed by National City Co.) will probably go the first of President Litchfield's giant gas bags if built. Using weather reports from ships at sea, Vice President Jerome Clarke Hunsaker has made hundreds of theoretical crossings, has gathered an abundance of lore to swell the experience of previous actual crossings. He estimates that schedules can be maintained 80% of the time, that his company can wax rich on a diversion of but 4% of the present deluxe steamship traffic...
...world's biggest." To house this huge ship, specifically designed for the commercial purposes of Dr. Hugo Eckener, two hangars were thrown together. Replete with comforts for 52 passengers, the LZ-129 will next year go into regular service on the South American run. Unlike the Graf Zeppelin she will be inflated with non-inflammable helium. But because helium is much more expensive than hydrogen, Dr. Eckener plans to install fireproof hydrogen ballonets inside the helium cells for use in regulating altitude. Like the Akron and the Macon, the LZ-129 (which Dr. Eckener wants to name Hindenburg...
...gargantuan hangar of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio continues to reverberate with pounding and riveting as the U. S. S. Macon, second of the Navy's modern dirigibles, slowly takes shape. If present specifications are followed she will be practically identical with her great sister. Like the Akron she will pouch a brood of planes. But, ship-like, she will have a sleeping bag for enlisted men. instead of the Akron's four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded...
With complete absence of fanfare, Capt. Ernst Lehmann announced the following spring schedule of flights for the Graf Zeppelin...