Word: zeppelin
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Before boarding the Zeppelin Hindenburg for Europe, passengers used to wait in a bare, high-ceilinged room at the Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Fortnight ago when fire destroyed the Hindenburg at Lakehurst (TIME, May 17), this chamber became a temporary morgue and 26 corpses lay there for two days awaiting identification and burial. Last week a Federal board of three investigators* and a crowd of newshawks sat down in the same room hopefully awaiting some clue to the disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened...
...week after the fire officials chugged down New York Bay to meet the Europa, bringing sad-eyed Dr. Hugo Eckener to help the investigation. Saying little, the world's No. 1 airship expert poked about the twisted girders of his greatest zeppelin, talked to survivors, watched the newsreels for the first time, took an active part in the inquiry...
...saying that "young and strong nations" can bear such tragedies. Chancellor Hitler tarted a fund for the bereaved families with a gift of $12,000. General Goring declared: "We men of German aviation will till show the world that the idea and the enterprising spirit of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin are upheld. . . . We bow to God's will and at the same time we face the uture with an unbending will and passionate hearts...
...ionized, or build up a small positive electric charge, through the friction of their escape. Hydrogen burns on contact with oxygen. The presence of a slight negative charge of static electricity in the airship fabric or in the air might thus cause a spark sufficient to start the fire. Zeppelin men scouted this idea, however, pointing out that many a German airship came back from bombing London shot full of holes which caused no hydrogen fire...
Died. Captain Ernst August Lehmann, 51, German Zeppelin commander; of burns suffered in the Hindenburg disaster; at Lakewood...