Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls and goldbraided Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; and big-framed, white-haired Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., looking down on his two bald...
Also noticeable is the smallness of the Akron's control car compared to the passenger gondola of the Graf Zeppelin. Not built for sightseers, the car accommodates only the officers and crew actually directing and navigating the ship. Inside the envelope are the captain's quarters, the radio room, the photographic laboratory...
...gelatin-latex treated cotton fabric, developed by Goodyear-Zeppelin for gas cells to take the place of goldbeater's skin (intestine of cattle) heretofore used in dirigibles. (To supply the Akron, the intestines of 1,500,000 cattle would have been required...
...gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...
...spacious estate in Akron's smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane on his flagpole and the firescreen in his living room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear blimps were named for a yacht which has defended the America's Cup (Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Defender, Vigilant). President Litchfield frequently rides in the blimps, which sometimes land on his grounds, once picked him from the deck of a liner, once took him from trainside...