Thrilling Graf Zeppelin flight and radio marvel noted
The 1929 Las Vegas Age editorial lauds the Graf Zeppelin’s Pacific crossing speed and radio reception vast crowd cheer in Los Angeles. It muses how science may bring distant events to viewers at home and ponders future scientific feats and public imagination. The piece also promotes Southern Nevada as a year round climate draw and imagines Las Vegas benefiting from Charleston Park nearby cooling areas and economic growth.
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Ose
Pacific Ocean
Tokyo
Japan
California
Los Angeles Rport
Graf
Nevada
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Hears Advocate For Boom From Boulder Dam
A visitor returning from a tour of eastern cities urged Las Vegas residents to seize the coming boom tied to the dam project. He predicted rapid growth, warned locals to prepare, and said big industry with capital will move in to use cheap power, making Las Vegas a permanent industrial center.
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Las Vegas
New York
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Boulder Dam
Graf Zeppelin Arrives to Thrill Los Angeles Crowd
The Graf Zeppelin landed near Mines Field and drew massive crowds as lights glittered across Hollywood and the Los Angeles river cottages. An all night vigil formed with tents on beaches and parks, as 75,000 spectators filled vacant lots and police directed traffic amid cheers at 1:52 a.m.
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United Pre Press St
Los Angeles
Zep
Graf
San Francisco
Mines Field
Lease of Old Fort for Test Plant Is Signed
The government obtains use of the Old Fort for a testing plant with remodeling plans including a new thatched roof for summer cooling. Walter R Bracken of Las Vegas Land and Water company says the government may use the fort as long as desired.
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Old Fort
Walter R. Bracken
Las Vegas Land and Water Company
Power Rate Cut Ordered
A power rate revision indicates charges for domestic and commercial cooking. The document specifies over 1250 kWh per month at 6e per kWh plus a minimum charge of $2.00, with domestic cooking at 8 cents per kWh and a $5.00 minimum, and a domestic combination rate for cooking lighting water heating or two of them.
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K.w.h
Pioche Mining Boom Sparks Prosperity in Las Vegas Visit
Jim Williams, a mining man, said Pioche’s prosperity is entirely due to rising mining activity. He noted new life and undoubted prosperity injected into the town and surrounding areas during his Las Vegas business trip.
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Jim Williams
Las Vegas
Highway Oiling Near Goldfield Begins
Highway work between Goldfield and a point 16 miles from Tonopah started a week ago, Judge J Emmett Walsh says. At half a mile daily, over three miles should be done now, he stated yesterday.
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Goldfield
Tonopah
J. Emmett Walsh
Zeppelins arrival greeted by Japanese crowds from rooftops
Hundreds of Japanese gathered on rooftops to salute the Graf Zeppelin as it voyage from Friedrichshafen, a scene captured and supplied to NEA Service and the AGE. The photo documents wide public welcome for the airship in the city.
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Friedrichshafen
NEA
Graf Zeppelin
Rate overhaul ordered for Consolidated Power in Las Vegas
The commission finds May 1 1928 and September 1 1929 rates unjust and unreasonable. It orders the company to adjust rates to 95.2 percent for consumers using up to 1 250 kWh monthly and 90 percent for higher usage, and to start plans for an independent Las Vegas generating plant. Construction must begin by November 1 1929 and be ready by September 1 1930, or show a new contract with Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway Company within 60 days.
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K.w.h
H.p
Consolidated Power and Telephone Company
Las Vegas
Consolidated Power and Telephone Co
Commission
Los Angeles & Salt Lake R. R. Company
Frank B. Warren
Graf Zeppelin Arrives Over Northern California City
The giant air liner circled a northern California city after its long Pacific hop from Tokyo marking a dramatic arrival and advancing air travel milestones for the era.
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California
Pacific
Tokyo
Zeppelin lands at Lakehurst with record Pacific crossing
Graf Zeppelin arrives at Mines Field after a 73 hour Tokyo to Los Angeles crossing. 75,000 spectators cheer as the airship moors to the mast. Passengers greet officials. Dr Hugo Eckener receives applause. Ground crew, customs checks, and a celebratory mood mark the Lakehurst landing amid sunlit dawn
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Pacific Ocean
Mines Field
Los Angeles
Tokio
Dewn
Hugo Eckener
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Natl. Bank Com
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Occidental Pet
Gilmore
Richfield
Rio Grande
Std. Oil
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Monarch
Associated Metals
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Adalaide Cotter
Eleanor Fuller
Boulder
T. A. Wells
Arul Natalie
Yellow Ping Mining Company
Bell System
San Francisco City Hall
Zeppelin
Lakehurst
Lady Drummond Hay
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Globe
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C. C. Young
Eckener
Nippon Chamber of Commerce
Nashiro Funoyoshi
GH. Beale
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