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New Dirigibles for Navy Expected to Stimulate Merchant Airships
The United States prepares for commercial lighter-than-air ships led by Goodyear designs a 782 foot airship with 6.4 million cubic feet capacity and 16 officers plus 45 crew. Congress debates a 2 million dollar grant to build two giants, with warnings from Goodyear and Navy officials about the ships' vast hangar costs and strategic uses.
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Washington
Astated
United States
Congress
Goodyear Company
Bureau of Aeronautics
Army
Navy
Paul Witchfield
Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy
Los Angeles
Panama
Saratoga
William A Moffett
Edward P Warner
Asronautics
Kurl Arnstein
Warner
England
P. W. Litchfield
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company