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...committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies (Goodyear, Firestone, U. S., Goodrich) had what seemed to be adequate inventories of rubber at favorable prices. But the future is not altogether reassuring, although possibilities of a shortage are balanced by the possibility that native planters in the Dutch East Indies will suddenly come forward with large rubber supplies...
Married. David Swope, son of President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co.; and Sarah Porter Hunsaker, daughter of Aircraft Designer Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (Shenandoah, NC-4), onetime (1928-33) vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Co.; in Boston...
...Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse. All four wheels are powered. In water or on marsh, traction...
...Wetherill Engineering Co.; Col. Robert G. Elbert, Wartime Flyer Gill Robb Wilson, director of Aeronautics in New Jersey, president of the National Association of State Aviation Officials. Besides Commander Rosendahl, they were advised by Commander Garland Fulton, lighter-than-air expert, and by President Paul W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which presumably will build any future U. S. airships...
...committee of the Society is headed by Chairman T. Edward Ross, 2nd '38 and is made up of the following undergraduates: William B. Bersseubrugge '37, Hume Dow, Joseph B. Coolidge, Jr. '38, H. Shippen Geodhue '38. Stephen Goodyear '38, Henry Uncowe '38, Robert E. Weruick '38, John D. Gordon '30, and Dr. Alan M. G. Little...