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...International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary Davidson notified the Navy in confidence, he said, but shortly thereafter Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. discharged both McDonald and Underwood, one of whom had to take refuge in his father's home in Tennessee "to protect himself...
...London. Dr. Hugo Eckener. director, and Col. Edward Andrews Deeds of National City Co., board chairman, of International Zeppelin Corp., asked the Air Minister, the Marquess of Londonderry, for permission to use the air stations at Howden and Cardington (homes of the wrecked R-101 and dismantled R-101) as bases for Zeppelin Corp.'s projected transatlantic airship service...
...Angeles. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. revealed that the U. S. S. Akron, scheduled to visit Los Angeles in February, will soon thereafter fly to Honolulu, possibly to the Orient...
...moon face, his hands folded complacently across his stomach as the ship floated up over her birthplace and turned her nose to the east. It was not yet dawn next day when the ship dropped her landing lines on the Lakehurst field but Dr. Hugo Eckener (whose beloved Graf Zeppelin is currently under command of Captain Ernst Lehmann) was on hand to see her and to chat with his old friends, famed Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl and Designer Arnstein (who also designed the Graf Zeppelin). He watched with them while the ground crew "squeezed" the Akron into the dock alongside...
...after the Akron went out into the world, workmen in the dock at Akron began laying out jigs on the floor in the form of great rings into which the main frames of the new ship, ZRS-5, are to be assembled. So confident was the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of the Akron's acceptance that as early as mid-summer President Paul Weeks Litchfield gave orders for the duralumin sheets for the new ship, and on July 1 fabrication of segments was begun. By last week much of the material had been fabricated and delivered to the dock. With...