Word: zeppeliner
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Faith alone does not move mountains in Washington. Commander Rosendahl and disciples have had assistance from three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...
...night up to 100,000 Nazis who are to perform before the Fuhrer on the morrow are bedded in barracks at the Party Camp adjoining the broad Lake Dutzend and buildings. Pending the completion of super-colossal March Field, Adolf Hitler this week had to be content with the Zeppelin Meadow, holding 100,000 spectators. And pending the completion of the Nazi Congress Hall, world's largest (40,000 seats). Orator Hitler was to speak to 10,000 sitters and 20,000 standees in Luitpold Hall. Also on schedule was the annual early morning service for the Party dead...
...even admirers who liked the thought of rubber floors on which children could not be hurt, or the fog gun for washing dishes, judged Mr. Fuller's proposal that the house be set up by being dropped from a Zeppelin a little visionary. Although it excited less discussion, critics were more impressed by his model bathroom exhibited in Manhattan four months ago, supplanting the present complex arrangement of pipes and drains with a unified, economical design as symmetrical as a piece of metal sculpture...
...Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
...could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably in oxygen tents); 3) that for the 17,900,000 cu. ft. Germany will receive in 1938 there will be a formal quid pro quo-two naval observers will ride on each German Zeppelin using the gas, thus get valuable training in lighter-than-air navigation which the U. S., with all its big dirigibles wrecked or grounded, no longer provides...