Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Amsterdam a German line takes you to Friedrichshafen, arriving at 8:45 o'clock. The Graf Zeppelin, should it be sailing by any chance at this season, will get you to Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, January 6, where you may hop on Pan American's Southern Clipper and be in Miami on the following Tuesday and in Boston Wednesday morning, January...
First news service really to cope with the Revolution was Universal which soared over censorship with an airplane ferrying regularly from Madrid to Paris the dispatches of tough old Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand, who appears to enjoy risking his life on everything from the Graf Zeppelin to Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 27). Some 40 miles from crass and modern Madrid is mellow and historic old Toledo, and out to it went Hearst's von Wiegand escorted by Red Militia. Wrote he afterwards: "A militiaman with a .32 calibre, nickelplated revolver in his hand stood at my side...
...lights on the airship twinkled back. Presently the 803-ft. sausage nosed into the haze over the Hudson, flew on toward Lakehurst, N. J. There a huge crowd had lined the U. S. Navy's vast lighter-than-air field for hours. At 5140 a.m. someone spotted the Zeppelin's big round nose poking up over the horizon in a pink glow from the rising...
Built in three years in Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin's hangar on the shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit...
...would be even more regrettable, for then the extraordinary significance of this event would be obscured by a distasteful flurry of paltry pellets of jingoistic mud. The "Hindenburg" was built for trausatlantic passenger service: she is the first airship to be commissioned for this purpose, since the "Graf Zeppelin" was primarily an experimental ship. Commanded by Germany's grand old man of the air, Dr. Hugo Eckener, the "Hindenburg'e" regular trips will be between Germany and South America; but this voyage to Lakehurst, if successful, will make air history. For it marks the first hesitant step of a process...