Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before boarding the Zeppelin Hindenburg for Europe, passengers used to wait in a bare, high-ceilinged room at the Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Fortnight ago when fire destroyed the Hindenburg at Lakehurst (TIME, May 17), this chamber became a temporary morgue and 26 corpses lay there for two days awaiting identification and burial. Last week a Federal board of three investigators* and a crowd of newshawks sat down in the same room hopefully awaiting some clue to the disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened...
...plus $12,000 for each passenger. Last week when it floated up from Frankfort for the first of 18 round-trips there were 39 passengers aboard, none of headline importance. In command was 45-year-old Captain Max Pruss, who went to work for old Count von Zeppelin in 1911, had made 170 flights across the Atlantic. Last year he commanded the Hindenburg on one flight from Lakehurst to Frankfort and on several to South America. As his adviser came famed Captain Ernst Lehmann, second only to great Dr. Hugo Eckener as a dirigible expert. He began flying airships...
...saying that "young and strong nations" can bear such tragedies. Chancellor Hitler tarted a fund for the bereaved families with a gift of $12,000. General Goring declared: "We men of German aviation will till show the world that the idea and the enterprising spirit of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin are upheld. . . . We bow to God's will and at the same time we face the uture with an unbending will and passionate hearts...
...ionized, or build up a small positive electric charge, through the friction of their escape. Hydrogen burns on contact with oxygen. The presence of a slight negative charge of static electricity in the airship fabric or in the air might thus cause a spark sufficient to start the fire. Zeppelin men scouted this idea, however, pointing out that many a German airship came back from bombing London shot full of holes which caused no hydrogen fire...
Died. Captain Ernst August Lehmann, 51, German Zeppelin commander; of burns suffered in the Hindenburg disaster; at Lakewood...