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What air travel will be like by 1964 no man can tell. But President Getulio Vargas of Brazil is sure of one thing: last week, through his Communications Ministry, he contracted with Zeppelin Co. for 20 transatlantic Zeppelin trips a year for 30 years. To seal the bargain he set aside a credit of 11,000 contos ($940,000) to help Zeppelin Co. build a hangar...
...cabin window washed him out of another, how he swam clear of the ship. When the inquiry was over he was sent to sea as navigating officer on a cruiser. Commander Alger Herman Dresel, who has been the Macon's skipper since it first emerged from the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, will take command of the Naval Air Station at Sunnyvale, Calif. Onetime commander of both the Los Angeles and Akron, he is the first officer to command three U. S. airships. Among other announced lighter-than-air transfers was that of Commander Charles Ernery Rosendahl from sea duty...
Last week Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron was awarded the contract for a balloon with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record...
...London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries." He would sell his latest product in the U. S. "if I could find a good man." Three months in the U. S. this autumn was sufficient for Mr. Neal. Last week he sent his magnificent Maybach-Zeppelin limousine back to France on the 5. S. De Grasse, departed on the 5. S. lie de France with his buxom young wife, his buxom young French secretary, his 9-year-old son Nen La Motte Sage (after the father's pseudonym), maids, valet. 30 trunks, 40 other pieces of luggage...
...compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior fittings silver and ivory. Reporter De Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin. 22 ft. long, weighing four tons. with 12-gear shift and capable of 100 m.p.h. Its cost: $52.000. "Whose is it?'' he asked inside the hotel, and was given a card: E. VIRGIL NEAL...