Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio static has at last been smoothed into silence. So said the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week to a group of scientists and industrialists gathered for the dedication of the new $1,325,000 Goodyear Research Laboratory in Akron. To prove it, Goodyear displayed a small box which, hooked up to an ordinary receiving set, chokes the fiercest static to a mere whisper...
...Wedgies" are the latest styles for paratroopers. The new rubber heels, made by Goodyear, have a smooth junction with the sole to avoid snagging, provide a better cushion for hard landings...
...Plastic tubing, announced by Goodyear, is ready to replace rubber tubing now prioritied to such users as breweries and creameries. As flexible as rubber, the new tubing has about the same strength and resistance to high & low temperatures, can be transparent, opaque or colored...
...Dektred is a new Goodyear nonskid flooring material for ships. A thick liquid, it may be sprayed or troweled on steel, wood or concrete, weighs little in the thin coating (1/32 in.) needed. Dektred is unimpaired by 50°-below-zero cold, softens but slightly in 160° heat, resists gasoline, oil, soap, salt water...
When the news of the new fighter's first battle reached the U.S. last week, the Vought factory at Stratford, Conn, was well along in output and driving toward full rate. But it will produce only part of the Navy's new swarm. At Akron, Goodyear Aircraft Corp. was also making the new Vought fighters. Goodyear ran its first Corsair off the line last week, announced that production had begun...