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...silly season had barely started when Illinois' Tom Green shocked speed-jaded Bonneville buffs by piloting Walt Arfons' Wingfoot Express to a new record of 413 m.p.h. It lasted just three days-until Walt's brother Art, 38, clocked 434 m.p.h. in his jet-powered Green Monster. That was enough to bring Old Bonneville Hand (407 m.p.h. in 1963) Craig Breedlove hustling back to the flats for another try in his three-wheeled Spirit of America...
...corner of Connecticut and N Streets. Swiftly the boxlike affair was unloaded. In exactly 3½ hours, nine men had turned it into a two-bedroom house, ready for occupancy. In this eye-opening way, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put on exhibition its prefabricated house, built by its subsidiary, Wingfoot Homes...
...that 48,900 houses a year can be mass-produced at a cost of under $2,500 apiece, plus delivery charges. Like some 'other prefabricators, notably Bucky Fuller, Goodyear Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield thinks that surplus war plants could be used to turn out his houses. But Wingfoot has made few houses to date, for the same reason that has delayed all building: lack of materials...
...Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes. Much more frequent are accidents in which the pilot of a plane disabled over the city has crashed with his ship...
...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...