Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-13
MAKING BALLOONS FOR
THE GOVERNMENT
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Also Furnish Country With ri
Per Cent of All Tires Used

\ AS makers OF speed records. bal
/ looms have never attracted any great
gotice. But in Akron the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co. is manufacturing
immense dirigibles at a cost of $780,
900 each, which attain a speed of
AZ miles a hour.
These dirigibles are being built
for the T. S. Government for war
purposes and will be used largely
in coast patrol work. They are fitted
up with a special Curtiss motor.
About three large balloons are being
turned out daily at the Goodyear
plant and production viii ultimately
be brought up to six a day.
Some 1000 men and women are
employed in the balloon department
alone. The company has purchased
a large field near the plant, where
daily tests of the balloons are made.
In addition to these immense diri-
gibles the company builds two small
Ter balloons for observation purposes,
one known as the kite" and the
other as the Free Balloon.
This is not the only form OF war
work being done by the Goodyear
company. More than 5000 gas
masks are being turned out daily at
the plant there. The company IS
also a large manufacturer of heavy
tires for army trucks.
At the start of this week Good
year was more than 100000 tires b..
hind orders Inasmuch as the com
pany is working at capacity and
turning out 10000 tires a day, this
means anywhere from two and on
half to three months behind orders
Sales of Goodyear for the six
months ended May 1. the first half
of the fiscal year. were in excess Of
S66.OOO.0OO. This was an increase
of about 40 per cent over the bust
ness for the same period in the pre-
vious year.
Inasmuch as the company did a
business in 1917 of s111,000,00O. q
continuance of this rate of increased
business over the closing six months
Twill mean a business for the full
fiscal year of something like S155.-
100000. On this basis, Goodyear
is the second largest manufacture
iof rubber goods in the world, its
business being exceeded only by that
iof the United States Rubber Co.
} About Is per cent of the com
pany's business is war business. 4
year ago the war business amounted
TO less than l per cent Of the total.
iOn the dollar basis, Goodyear's war
business is in excess of $23,000,0oo.
Most of the company's business IS
on the cost plus basis.
Another favorable feature is the
fact that the company is we'll sup
piled with crude rubber. Its re-
,quirements in this line are taken |
,care of for al least six months 20
come.
This company. as well as others, |
is having great trouble securing Ia |
Dor. Its Akron factories now en-
ploy 5000 women and within sixty |
DAYS there will be al least 5000 a |
year ago the total number OF women
on the payroll was slightly over SEQ. |
War taxes will cost Goodyear
about 100000 a year. The COM
pany recently offered its customers /
about s15,0o0.0oO of new preferred |
stock at par. More than SS.OOO.0 600
has already been subscribed for.
The Continental Company, one OF
Maryland's strongest financial and
investment institutions, whose adver-
tisement is appearing in this issue. is
offering the newly issued second pre-
ferred stock to the public and will /
send full particulars on request.