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...International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary Davidson notified the Navy in confidence, he said, but shortly thereafter Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. discharged both McDonald and Underwood, one of whom had to take refuge in his father's home in Tennessee "to protect himself...
Navy inspectors smothered the charges with denials. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. testified that Underwood had been discharged for stealing Navy plans, McDonald had been laid off with hundreds of others after the Akron was completed...
...throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which was undamaged...
...Angeles. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. revealed that the U. S. S. Akron, scheduled to visit Los Angeles in February, will soon thereafter fly to Honolulu, possibly to the Orient...
...Petersburg Fla. Complaints were made that pilots of the Goodyear blimp Reliance made a practice of flying passengers low and slowly over the town's rootless solarium where sunbathers lounge unclad...