Goodyear tire manufacturing plant In Akron Ohio. Employees gather and stand in line. A man instructs them. Men with goods carriers walk out. Two men hang slogan plate of Goodyear on the wall. 'Protect our good name' is written on slogan plate. One of these plates is seen near a water tap. Man drinks water from fountain and reads the slogan. Views of a another plaque with more text after the slogan. Narrator reads words on the plaque written by Goodyear's Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear. View of factory smoke stack with smoke coming out of it.
Artist Donn Drumm in the United States. A large steel sculptor made by artist Donn Drumm at a plaza in Akron,Ohio. Artist Donn Drumm makes sculptors. He talks about his background which helped him to work on a massive scale. A sign on a sculptor reads 'Drumm'. Several sculptors made by Drumm. A sculptor on the wall of a building. Donn Drumm takes out hot melting iron from a container and puts it on the sculptor. Various crafts items made by the artist Drumm. He can make any design with any melted metal. He has worked on wood, steel, brass, aluminum-- any metal which can give shape and texture. The sculptor and craft items made up of various metals on display.
Manufacturing of rubber heels for the soles of U.S. soldiers' boots at a Goodyear plant in Windsor, Vermont. Men and women emerge from rubber heel manufacturing facility in Windsor Vermont. Workers wash uncured rubber heels and keep them to dry so as to prevent them from sticking. Man puts rubber heels in molds for nailing. Each nailed heel passes through vulcanization machines. Woman checks the vulcanized rubber heels and puts them together. Women pass completed heels through an X-ray machine and check for defects. In Akron, Ohio, a U.S. Army soldier stands in front of the statue of Charles Goodyear, the founder of Goodyear rubber company, and the discoverer of vulcanization. (World War II period).
N2Y-1 training plane, with trapeze-hook gear, successfully hooks up to the USS Akron (ZRS-4) airship. Akron crew member, Lieutenant Wayer, descends a ladder from USS Akron. He makes sure airplane is securely fastened to the Akron. He climbs into the airplane, which is then hoisted into the USS Akron.
Consolidated N2Y-1airplane tries to hook-on to USS Akron (ZRS-4) Zeppelin Dirigible, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. USS Akron in flight. Consolidated N2Y-1makes repeated attempts to hook on to USS Akron. A Consolidated N2Y-1 hooks onto the airship and releases. Another succeeds in hooking to and releasing from the Akron.
View from the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) as Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart secures his position, suspended on a cable from the airship, 2000 feet above the ground following a cable ring failure that left three sailors dangling beneath the Akron, at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.(The other two fell to their deaths.) Large group of sailors stand on ground below, watching. Crew of the Akron reel in the cable carrying Cowart and pull him aboard. View of Cowart, inside the Akron, calmly speaking of his experience.
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