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This telegram agitated President Walter H. Girdler of the Helium Co., Louisville, Ky. In all the world he is the only private producer of commercial quantities of helium. The U. S. Government is his only competitor. The Government is also his major customer. Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. buys some Girdler helium now for its blimps. Other minor helium uses are for incandescent lamps, food preservation, metallurgy, deep sea diving. The Government's buying surpasses all these...
Less ancient than Scovill, but still old by U. S. standards, is the Schrader concern. In 1844 August Schrader started making diving suits and air pumps, a business that brought him into contact with many of the early rubber experimenters. After making moulds for Dr. Charles Goodyear, Founder Schrader began to manufacture a variety of metal parts for rubber products. When pneumatic tires were made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools...
Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker. vice-president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., said that the plan would be feasible, except for certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...