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When the Graf Zeppelin flew the world last summer, air-minded U. S. financiers blinked interested eyes at the potentialities in lighter-than-air travel. Foremost among the blinkers was Charles Edwin Mitchell, board chairman of National City Bank. While public excitement died down after the accomplishment of the Graf, he kept the financial pot simmering, aroused potent protagonists. In October 1929, International Zeppelin Transport Corp. was incorporated under the laws of Delaware...
Last week the Grafs commander, busy Dr. Hugo Eckener, arrived in Manhattan from Germany. He was closeted with Banker Mitchell. They signed an agreement, announced the result of the financial potboiling: under the guidance of National City, such companies as Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Aluminum Co. of America, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., United Aircraft & Transport Corp., subscribed for stock in International Zeppelin Transport Corp. Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin, was re-elected president of International Zeppelin. Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, chairman of the executive committee of United Aircraft & Transport, was made chairman of the board. Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker...
...Washington, Dr. Eckener received the medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...
...port of great value. Since May 1919, when the NC-4, U. S. flying boat, boomed proudly in from the first crossing of the Atlantic, many flyers have used it as a real or potential haven. The German ZR-3, now the Los Angeles, flew over it. The Graf Zeppelin flew over it. It forms an ideal hopping-off point for North America. Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands to the south, likewise form fine harbors for Europe to South America air traffic. Of 22 successful flights across the Atlantic, both north and south, one-half of them have either...
...Graf Zeppelin to Rio. Of all the ocean-skimming trips predicted for 'ihe Graf Zeppelin this year, the one from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro this spring seemed most certain last week. Dr. Hugo Eckener last autumn indicated that such a trip would be across Spain, West Africa and the South Atlantic. But there is money in jaunting rich Americans to the U. S. So last week the route was promised as Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, to Rio?if the U. S. navy would grant permission to use its dirigible hangar at Lakehurst...