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Sledgehammers clanged the knell of Britain's airship program in the great air dock at Cardington last week. The hammers, swung by workmen of Elton. Levy & Co. Ltd., buyers of scrapmetal, fell against the frames of the airship R-100 which flew from England to Canada and back last year, and has been in her shed ever since. Following the catastrophic crash of the R-101, the R-100 fell victim to an economy program. After all the metal has been flattened by steamrollers, some of it will be made into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts...
Benenson Foreclosed. Grigori Benenson, rich Russian, had ambitions towards a monumental record in Manhattan real estate. For years he conducted quiet private operations. And, as president of New York Dock Co., he supervised the extensive real estate holdings of that company. Last winter he attempted to sell New York Dock some property on lower Broadway, started a battle in which he was defeated...
Last week it became clear why President Benenson wished to sell the property to New York Dock. Benenson City Terminal Co. was unable to meet a $2,451,000 bond maturity and a foreclosure was ordered. Under the auctioneer's hammer, wielded by ubiquitous Joseph Paul Day, went the 34-story Benenson office building at No. 165 Broadway, two adjacent parcels. The total winning bids were $23,775,779 or only $1,815,000 more than existing prior liens...
...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 the Los Angeles with only 15 ft. to spare. Side by side, the Akron made the doughty old Los Angeles look nearly as small as the little J-ships used to look alongside the Los Angeles...
...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...