Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calcium chloride in water will not freeze above -20°, reduces bouncing and sidewall buckling, requires little care because water will not diffuse through an inner tube as air does. The liquid distributes pressure to all parts of the tire, unlike a solid filler. The tire was developed by Goodyear, is not yet on the market...
Last week round-faced Dr. George Washington Crile formally unveiled in his Cleveland Clinic a stupendous museumful of stuffed animals and a new physiological theory. The museum was completed last March when Dr. Crile went to Miami, hired a Goodyear blimp, wandered cloudlike over the blue Gulf Stream in search of a manatee. When he at last sighted one in an estuary, he blimped back to shore, boarded a speedboat, bagged it (935 lb.). In Cleveland the manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in the past 15 years...
There was no question that the delegates did not want inflation and did want to aid the Government in defense. Said President George E. Price Jr. (Goodyear's purchasing agent) in his keynote address: "We are looking not so much at the problems of how we can benefit our individual companies as how we can best serve our nation." But they looked to Government's men at the meeting to tell them how to proceed. Said Price: "We recognize the need for guidance. This is a time of great confusion...
...Casa Holck (40% owned in Germany, 40% owned by Germans in Mexico) was last year blacklisted by some U. S. firms, but got their products anyway through dummy agents. Casa Hoick distributes for Deere & Co., Goodyear, and Cortland Grinding Wheels Corp...
...destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed 1,770 other craft, ranging from 564 rubber boats (built by Goodyear, presumably for Marine landing parties) to lighters, harbor tugs and minesweepers. Summarizing this intelligence, Carl Vinson announced that during 1940 the Navy had set down $6,558,068,570 in contracts for 2,048 assorted craft (including small boats). The Navy had also spent $75,060,610 for 189 auxiliaries...