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...should have better sense. Love," cabled Mrs. Henry J. Pierce to her husband in Manhattan. He had pleaded with her over the telephone and cable and through the U. S. State Department not to sail on the Graf Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen. She did sail, early one fair morning last week, with Susi, female gorilla, 17 male passengers and the Zeppelin's crew of 40 (Dr. Hugo Eckener commanding...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...
Rushing down and against her went the mistral, the draft which comes from France's coolish central plateau and ends over the warmish Mediterranean. The Graf Zeppelin bucked the mistral. The wind tossed and whirled the ship. A fourth engine went dead. Only one remained to drive her and that was not enough. Commander Eckener headed her south and floated with the wind...
...preparation for the return trip of the Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen, if and after it reaches the U. S. next week as planned, Union Carbide & Carbon Co. last week shipped several tank cars of a new fuel gas to Lakehurst. The German dirigible in its flight to the U. S. last year, used gas instead of gasoline as fuel for its engines?the reason being that when gasoline is used up, an airship becomes lighter and rises unless some of its bag gas is also set free, a costly expedient. Gaseous fuel as it is used up can be replaced...
...Germans adopted "Blau" gas, a mixture of several gases obtained by cracking petroleum. The gas prepared to take the Graf Zeppelin back to Germany is ethane, extracted from natural gas. It is asserted that ethane is not only cheaper to produce than Blau gas but is a better fuel. Germany, which has little natural gas, cannot produce...