Delegates from the Pan American Highway Commission conclude a visit of the United States with a return to Washington DC. They stroll together as a group on the circular driveway of the White House. Views of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, reflecting pool, and U.S. Capitol.
Superintendents and development men from Goodyear tire companies come for a conference in Akron Ohio. They disembark from the train, take their belongings and proceed towards the venue. View of downtown street of Akron. Goodyear managers from all over the world attend the conference. Sam Steere and his cotton mill men, Kox and Kavenagh from Windsor, along with Harry Post are seen. , Cormen and Peperika from South America are seen. Views of tire production underway at Goodyear plants. Old rubber tires seen at a reclamation plant. View of an Airplane wheel being constructed. Tank treads stockpiled at St. Marys, Ohio. View of tanks crossing a field and warplanes soaring over them. View of back of St. Mary's Goodyear molded rubber plant.
Press and media persons with other spectators witness the inflation and raising of a great many helium-filled barrage balloons made by Goodyear in Akron Ohio, at Wingfoot Lake. Men filling balloons with helium gas. Various balloons and blimps flying high in the sky. "Goodyear" is written on some of the balloons. View of Wingfoot Lake below the balloons. A Goodyear stratosentinal balloon with six large fins capable of flying to 15,000 feet. Barrage balloon seen landing as air rather than helium is let into the lower fin as a stabilizer. A blimp with writing "Goodyear Lifeguard Tires" on it.
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.
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).
Navy airship flying event at Wingfoot Lake hangar near Akron Ohio. Non rigid naval airship coming out of hangar for its first trial flight. U.S.Navy K-3 mark is seen on the dirigible. Commanders of navy in airship along with Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chaiman and CEO of Goodyear. The K-3 and a Goodyear blimp flying over the area. Aerial views of lake and town below. Airship lands.
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