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...Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...
...mother's side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer of a job with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, it was with misgiving. Akron was so far inland...
...smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane on his flagpole and the firescreen in his living room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear blimps were named for a yacht which has defended the America's Cup (Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Defender, Vigilant). President Litchfield frequently rides in the blimps, which sometimes land on his grounds, once picked him from the deck of a liner, once took him from trainside in the mountains of California...
...recent years. He drives one of several automobiles to and from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise with him, but he does summon them to lengthy breakfasts about once each month...
...this end Commander Hunsaker and his aides have been working for months in a Manhattan office building, making imaginary daily sailings of Zeppelins on weather charts covering 40 years of Atlantic weather. Nothing can be done before the Government guarantees mail subsidies, but when the time comes, Goodyear-Zeppelin can set to work with equipment, talent and experience gained from the Navy contract...