Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...
...static eliminator was one of many new gadgets announced at Goodyear's lab oratory dedication last week. Most of them now have a strictly military purpose. But the chief significance of Goodyear's expensive new laboratory was its preview of the part that synthetic rubber and plastics may play in the postwar world...
...Goodyear's new "radio static neutralizer" has a set of electronic tubes that intercepts outside electrical interference and reduces it to less than one twenty-thousandth of a volt. In one test a 25,000-volt spark projected on a radio antenna was so effectively tamed by the neutralizer that the set smoothly brought in a short-wave broadcast from Europe. But the neutralizer is reserved for the armed forces, will not be available to civilians until after...
...laboratory's lobby, Goodyear's big, brooding board chairman Paul Weeks Litchfield had struck a slogan in foot-high letters: "THE BEST IS YET TO COME." Some glimpses of things to come that Goodyear gave its visitors...
...plastic glue, called Cycleweld, which may replace riveting and spot welding on light metals, notably aluminum. Developed by Goodyear and Chrysler, it bonds metal, wood or plastic sheets together, is stronger and cheaper than riveting or welding...