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Last week Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron was awarded the contract for a balloon with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record...
...Eckener assured newsmen they would see transatlantic airship service as soon as U. S. bankers round up enough money. In Friedrichshafen the LZ-129 bigger than the Macon and twice as big as the Graf Zeppelin, has its skeleton nearly complete. In Akron the designing staff of Goodyear-Zeppelin is working on plans for a similar commercial ship to be built there and operated alternately with LZ-129 But bankers and builders know that no service will start without assurance of substantial U. S. mail subsidies...
...polish off its damnation of Goodyear, the Commision invoked the Clayton anti-trust act, charging that the alleged discrimination "tends to create a monopoly" in the making and selling of tires...
...Goodyear's President Paul Weeks Litchfield was not particularly alarmed by the Commission's complaint. "The manufacture of special brand merchandise for large distributors is a common practice in most lines of manufacturing and merchandising," he remarked. "However, this Goodyear-Sears contract has for several years been the subject of a great deal of publicity and the objective of an anti-mail-order campaign directed at our dealer organization. We welcome this opportunity to have the facts aired and settled once and for all. . . . When the case comes up for hearing we expect to prove that...
Meantime as tiremakers labored with their code in Washington, Akron chuckled: If Harvey Firestone had not actually sicked the government on Goodyear, for once at least he would find no fault with Government policing of Business...