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...fight for and against more big dirigibles reached a showdown. Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, coolly declared that airships had no demonstrable military value, flying qualities aside. Congressman Harter pleaded for re-employment at Goodyear-Zeppelin factory in Akron, Mr. Dingell for Detroit's metal-clads, Mr. Sutphin for adequate training at Lakehurst. Congress casually passed the buck to Mr. Roosevelt: if he wished, he could spend up to $3,000,000 for a ship about half the size of the Akron and Macon...
Faith alone does not move mountains in Washington. Commander Rosendahl and disciples have had assistance from three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...
Biggest is Goodyear, whose President Paul W. Litchfield plugged for dirigibles at a closed Congressional hearing last year. Public pleading for dirigibles is left to Congressman Dow Harter of Ohio. Congressman John Dingell of Detroit and William Sutphin of New Jersey (whose district includes Lakehurst) are also dutiful airship boosters...
Last year the rubber industry bought 283,750,000 lbs. of cotton for use in tires. Therefore when U.S. Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced last August that they had developed a much stronger tire by using rayon (TIME, Aug. 15), the makers of cotton tire cord were stirred to action. Last week the biggest one of all, Bibb Manufacturing Co. of Macon, Ga., announced the result-a cotton tire cord which it claims has 25% more tensile strength under friction heat developed at high speeds than the old cotton type. A Bibb customer simultaneously announced that tests...
TIME has already replaced the Seven Hills in Akron's odorless landscape (TIME, June 27). TIME'S story, otherwise in order, erred in the following particulars: 1) The Goodyear strike was not approved by the local union until after the rioting had begun; 2) The majority of the rioters were apparently not Goodyear workers; 3) Donald Dixon, the 19-year-old who was shot through the kidney, was no striker, but a hospital employe...