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Transatlantic mail & passenger airship service was brought another step nearer when the House passed the Grosser bill providing long-term mail contracts (TIME, March 21). If the bill passes the Senate, which has received a favorable committee report. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. will begin immediately a building program to provide scheduled service in three years...
Still aloft after 17 hr. were Goodyear VII, whose pilot Roland J. Blair won the 1930 races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
...gargantuan hangar of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio continues to reverberate with pounding and riveting as the U. S. S. Macon, second of the Navy's modern dirigibles, slowly takes shape. If present specifications are followed she will be practically identical with her great sister. Like the Akron she will pouch a brood of planes. But, ship-like, she will have a sleeping bag for enlisted men. instead of the Akron's four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded...
...choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht...
...basic industries. Founder Eaton is believed to have had some ultimate plan of co-operation among the rubber rivals similar to that started last week. In its last annual report Continental valued its rubber investments at five million dollars. ; The largest investment was in Firestone; other holdings were in Goodyear, Goodrich and U. S. Rubber...