Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying as a passenger since 1914, has toured most of Europe, the West Indies and the U. S. by air. She has never attempted to become a pilot. A good friend of Dr. Hugo Eckener, she was the first paying woman passenger to cross the Atlantic in the Graf Zeppelin (Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Hearstling, preceded her but as a dead-head). In Manhattan last year she met Dr. Claude Dornier, offered $11,000 for passage in his huge flying boat for its much touted flight direct to the U. S. When the plane finally made its floundering...
...Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...
...dozen scientists, some in their underwear, some in trousers, all in acute discomfort, at about the cabin of the Graf Zeppelin as she ambled one day last week from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, first stop on her 1931 Arctic cruise. To minimize the load, each man's baggage had been limited to the heavy fur & woolen clothing required in the Far North...
...equipment is a sounding balloon developed by Professor Paul Molchanov of Leningrad. Because the chance of recovering such a balloon from the Arctic wastes is slim, the recording device is equipped with a light radio transmitter, which automatically transmits the readings of the instruments to the Graf Zeppelin...
Navy, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is liable for a penalty of $5 per Ib. for overweight up to 5,000 Ib., but last week it was questionable whether a penalty would be assessed since some of the excess may be chargeable to changes in Navy specifications. Said Rear Admiral William A. Moffett: "The Akron has been splendidly constructed, better than any dirigible within our knowledge. The slight excess in her weight ... is a direct conversion into increased safety and military factors...