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Blimps & the Atom. Goodyear's Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield, the company's boss for 28 years, has always been a strong believer in diversification. When he arrived in Akron in 1900, as Goodyear's new plant superintendent, he was just out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first real scientist on the young company's staff. He also had a penchant both for production and for trying unexplored fields. In those days U.S. tiremakers produced solid, iron-hard rings of rubber. Litchfield soon learned a better way. In 1902 he took Goodyear...
...resolution which he sponsored is also backed by more than one-fourth of the members of both Houses of Congress-including such Senators as George, Carlson, Thye-and by such other conservatives as Justice Owen J. Roberts, Will Clayton, Joseph Grew, John McCloy, John Foster Dulles, James Wadsworth, Paul Litchfield, Harry Bullis (to name but a few), I take it that "visionary" is a compliment in your lexicon, and I thank you. But I must testify that Senator Kefauver has supported it not only "in theory," but in season and out-and so vigorously as to take Secretary Acheson sharply...
Just before World War II, Electus D. Litchfield, a Manhattan architect who is Cox's great-grandson, appealed to President Franklin Roosevelt, who proved sympathetic but without any legal power to reverse the 1814 court-martial. Two years ago Litchfield persuaded Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox (no kin) to introduce a resolution restoring William Cox to the rank of third lieutenant as of his death in 1874. This was the resolution before the House Armed Services Committee last week. The outlook is that Litchfield, now 80, and 30-odd other descendants may see the family name cleared...
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Under questioning by state officials, Superintendent Bearss admitted that he had invented 89 "ghost" pupils for a total profit of $13,000 to Litchfield's schools. He also admitted that he had burned all records in the case. "Without the records," he explained, "I did not think there would be much of a case...