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...Committee last week gave a clean bill of health to the U. S. S. Akron which it had investigated on charges of faulty construction (TIME, Feb. 8). Such flaws as had occurred were long ago corrected by Navy inspectors, the committee reported. As for the 18,000 lb. overweight, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had paid its penalty...
Meanwhile the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce concluded hearings on the Grosser bill which would provide mail subsidies for transatlantic airships. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin and his vice president Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsakcr told the committee that their corporation could have two ships ready within three years to begin weekly service of 2½ days per trip. Operating cost they estimated at $70,000 per trip; maximum mail revenue $63,000: maximum passenger load, 80 (at $750 fare...
Last year B. F- Goodrich and Good-year Tire 6 Rubber took their inventory losses out of earnings, whereas in 1930 they were taken out of surplus. On a comparable basis last year B. F. Goodrich lost $8,815,000 against $10,309.000 lost in 1930. But Goodyear made $1,328,000 against...
Blimp in a Gale. When the wind over Manhattan whipped up to gale force Pilot Prescott Dixon of the Goodyear blirnp Columbia decided to get back to earth...
When discussion turned to the Akron's sister ZRS-5 now abuilding, a Navy proposal was revealed to sell the doughty old Los Angeles (which by treaty terms cannot be equipped for war) to Goodyear-Zeppelin, proceeds to be used for enlarging the ZRS-5 from 6,500,000 cu. ft. to 7,500,000 cu. ft. at a cost of about...