Hand County was named for George H. Hand originally from Akron, Ohio.

The team wound up playing one of its final two " home " games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, where the franchise's only win occurred — over the Chicago Bears of George Halas, in front of an estimated 3, 000 fans on Thanksgiving Day.

The team did not return after World War II ; instead, George Halas took what was left of the team and split it into the Newark Bombers and the Akron Bears.

The owner of the Akron Tryre Co and of 3AK was George F. Palmer.

* George Babcock: played for Michigan ( 1923 – 1925 ), head coach for Akron ( 1926 ) and Cincinnati ( 1927 – 1930 )

" Dr. Kelman, who received the National Medal of Technology from President George H. W. Bush in 1992, was inducted February 2004 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.

After discovering that Reilly was let go from the Yankees and now works for Firestone, George flies to Akron, Ohio, sets up a meeting, and brings a tray of shrimp just to try out the jerk store line.

) was born the second son of George and Eliza Barber in Middlebury, a small Ohio village later annexed by Akron.

As part of the company's tuition reimbursement program, George enrolled in the University of Akron, where he studied transportation, marketing and advertising.

The three-lane asphalt track starts near the top of George Washington Boulevard and drops in a straight line down the wooded hill in the shadow of the Rubber Bowl, ending under final approach for runway 25 of Akron Fulton International Airport.

George accompanied his father on selling trips to cities such as Akron, New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and Detroit.

** United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike ; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Boston, and Denver, Colorado ; 210, 000 out of 750, 000 U. S. postal employees walk out.

Originally housed in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Hall outgrew its location and moved to Akron, Ohio.

Akron is a village in Tuscola County of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Akron Township is a civil township of Tuscola County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

* Dennis E. Nolan, born in Akron, was a career U. S. Army officer and headed the first modern American military combat intelligence function.

* U. S. Post Office ( Akron, New York ), a historic post office building.

Massillon is a city located in Stark County in the U. S. state of Ohio, approximately 8 miles to the west of Canton, Ohio, 20 miles south of Akron, Ohio, and 50 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio.

The Akron School Law of 1847 began the K-12 grade school system, which currently is used in every U. S. state.

* S. Love and David Giffels, Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron, Ohio.

Akron Township is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Minnesota:

Akron is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio.

Duralumin sample from the USS Akron ( ZRS-4 ) Its first use was in rigid airship frames eventually including all those of the " Great Airship " era of the 1920s and 1930s: the German passenger Zeppelins LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, and U. S. Navy airships USS Los Angeles ( ZR-3, ex-LZ 126 ), USS Akron ( ZRS-4 ) and USS Macon ( ZRS-5 ).

" The plurality also overruled City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U. S. 416 ( 1983 ) and Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 476 U. S. 747 ( 1986 ), each of which applied " strict scrutiny " to abortion restrictions.

In 1958 at age 18, he competed in his first PGA Tour event, the Rubber City Open, at Akron, Ohio, tying for 12th place after being just one out of the lead at the 36-hole mark, and made the cut in the U. S. Open, tying for 41st place.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Akron, Ohio, U. S.

The U. S. headquarters are in Akron, Pennsylvania, the Canadian in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The first company was founded by John S. Knight upon inheriting control of The Akron Beacon Journal from his father, Charles Landon Knight, in 1933 ; the second company was founded by Herman Ridder when he acquired the German language Staats-Zeitung newspaper in 1892.

Within Ohio the claim was a wide strip between Lake Erie and a line just south of Youngstown, Akron, New London, and Willard, about south of the present-day U. S. Highway 224.

It was later used on HMA ( His Majesty's Airship ) No. 9r, a British rigid airship that first flew in 1916 and the twin 1930s-era U. S. Navy rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon that were used as airborne aircraft carriers, and a similar form of thrust vectoring is also particularly valuable today for the control of modern non-rigid airships.

Founded in 1934, the Ford Gum and Machine Company of Akron, New York was another early manufacturer of gum for gumball machines in the U. S. The Ford brand of gumball machines had a distinct shiny chrome color ; sales of gum from Ford gumball machines went to local service organizations such as the Lions Club and Kiwanis International.

Other PRI's were founded in 1961 by Richard S. Stein at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1967 by Eric Baer at Case Western Reserve University, in 1982 at The University of Southern Mississippi, and in 1988 at the University of Akron.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) is an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith ( Bill W. and Dr. Bob ) in Akron, Ohio.

Wilson's first success came during a business trip to Akron, Ohio, where he was introduced to Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon and Oxford Group member who was unable to stay sober.

* 216: 331 Akron / Canton / Cleveland / Lorain / Youngstown, OH ( deprecated, 331 is available for assignment as a new CO code as of 2012.

Akron Beacon Journal columnist Terry Pluto documented the decades of woe that followed the trade in his book The Curse of Rocky Colavito.

Kaye had one character he never shared with the public ; Kaplan, the owner of an Akron, Ohio rubber company, came to life only for family and friends.

is an American punk rock / new wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.

Their first two music videos, " Secret Agent Man " and " Jocko Homo " featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, the hometown of most members.

During discovery, Lewis produced articles, promotional materials, documentary evidence and an interview recorded at the Akron Art Institute following the premiere of In the Beginning was the End in which Mothersbaugh and other band members credited Lewis with developing the theory of de-evolution, and the band quickly settled for an undisclosed sum.

A quote from the Akron Beacon Journal elucidates, "... Devo recently finished a new project in cahoots with Disney called Devo 2. 0, which features the band playing old songs and two new ones with vocals provided by children.

On October 17, 2008, Devo performed a special concert at the Akron Civic Theater, their first in Akron since 1978, to promote Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The period of Appalachian out-migration, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s, saw many mountain residents moving north to the midwestern industrial cities of Chicago, Cleveland, Akron, and particularly Detroit, where jobs in the automotive industry were plentiful.

The Yanks moved to Dallas after the 1951 season, but played their final two " home " games of the 1952 season at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio.

His mother, of Irish and German descent, had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who worked for the B. F. Goodrich Company.

* 1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

* 1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith ( founders of Alcoholics Anonymous ) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.