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On the evening of March 27, 1930, Hugo Eckener took the rostrum at the National Geographic Society’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to accept the institution’s gold medal. He deserved it: A few months earlier, the German explorer had piloted the first passenger-carrying flight to circumnavigate the globe. Aboard the Graf Zeppelin, Eckener had flown 21 passengers on the 21,500-mile trip in 12 days.
The feat generated plenty of media attention—not least from the Hearst newspapers, which had bankrolled the trip.
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