Weapons being manufactured and tested in the United States during World War II. Women manufacture Bofors anti aircraft gun at a plant in Akron, Ohio. Men and women work on various parts of the Bofors gun. Bofors gun lined up at the plant. A one thousand pound bomb being tested at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Men push the bomb on a trolley. Bomb being loaded under the wing of an aircraft. Aircraft in flight. A bomb isdropped and it impacts causing billows of smoke to rise up. Another bomb being released and it hits the ground. Billows of smoke rise up.
United States Navy airship Akron being successfully tried in Akron, Ohio. Crew members gathered around the 785 feet long airship as it prepares for its maiden flight. The airship in flight. Aerial view of the airship in flight.
Making of the dirigible USS Akron at Akron in Ohio. A large hanger inside which the huge dirigible assembled. A 550 Horse Power engine of the airship brought on engine stand. Propellers of the engine dirigible. Propellers move tilt during landing. Propeller rotates and tilts in straight and downwards.
Making of the dirigible USS Akron at Akron in Ohio. A large hanger inside which the huge dirigible assembled. Workers place the cover of airship starting from its nose. Interior of the dirigible with a maze of duralumin girders and wires.
Repeated scenes of a car making high speed turns in front of a stadium in Akron Ohio near the Goodrich Rubber Company plant. Text 1940 carved in stone above stadium entrance. Car tires make screeching sound during turns, demonstrating how rubber is wasted during rapid turns. Scenes of same car repeatedly driving from road over curb. Large white lettered sign on ground in background reads 'AKRON'.
Goodyear managers observe a model of the globe. George Hinshaw shows Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear, the route taken by a team of Goodyear managers returning from Sweden to the United States. Management from Sweden come to Akron Ohio as the Goodyear rubber plant in Sweden was shutdown due to a wartime shortage of rubber. Various managers from the closed Goodyear operation in Sweden walk down the gangplank from their ship at dock, including Twisty Monk, Bob Wilson, Lee Young, and others. Press interviews Bob Wilson. Mrs. Walter Condon, wife of the Goodyear Australia Superintendent arrives at Akron Airport to visit her ill mother. View of United Airlines DC-3 taxiing to a halt, and Mrs. Condon emerging from the plane.
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