Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker. vice-president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., said that the plan would be feasible, except for certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways...
...Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. was formed five years ago. Paul Weeks Litchfield, present president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber had visited Friedrichshafen, home of the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, where dirigible-building is an adult profession. Mr. Litchfield, who long before the War had induced Goodyear Tire & Rubber to build balloons, saw opportunity in dirigibles. He dickered with Dr. Hugo Eckener, as usual in need of construction money, for the American rights to build rigid airships and for the loan of some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener...
...once Dr. Arnstein began designing two military rigid airships of 6,500,000 cubic feet capacity.* His design won first prizes in two competitions held by the Navy's bureau of Aeronautics. Last year Goodyear-Zeppelin got its Navy contracts and started work...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...