Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week gave a clean bill of health to the U. S. S. Akron which it had investigated on charges of faulty construction (TIME, Feb. 8). Such flaws as had occurred were long ago corrected by Navy inspectors, the committee reported. As for the 18,000 lb. overweight, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had paid its penalty...
Meanwhile the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce concluded hearings on the Grosser bill which would provide mail subsidies for transatlantic airships. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin and his vice president Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsakcr told the committee that their corporation could have two ships ready within three years to begin weekly service of 2½ days per trip. Operating cost they estimated at $70,000 per trip; maximum mail revenue $63,000: maximum passenger load, 80 (at $750 fare...
...International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary Davidson notified the Navy in confidence, he said, but shortly thereafter Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. discharged both McDonald and Underwood, one of whom had to take refuge in his father's home in Tennessee "to protect himself...
Navy inspectors smothered the charges with denials. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. testified that Underwood had been discharged for stealing Navy plans, McDonald had been laid off with hundreds of others after the Akron was completed...
When discussion turned to the Akron's sister ZRS-5 now abuilding, a Navy proposal was revealed to sell the doughty old Los Angeles (which by treaty terms cannot be equipped for war) to Goodyear-Zeppelin, proceeds to be used for enlarging the ZRS-5 from 6,500,000 cu. ft. to 7,500,000 cu. ft. at a cost of about...