Word: airship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blessed by the Pope, bidden adieu by Premier Mussolini as she sailed majestically forth on her polar flight, with one (or more) strokes of his pen, your Editor converts her [the Norge] from a "good airship" into a "BLUNT SILVERY CIGAR." [TIME, Apr. 19, SCIENCE...
...dismaying to the Anti-Nicotine League, your Editor is not yet done. Nay, far from it. For as she sails high above the sparkling Mediterranean, he must needs bring despair to peace advocates and consternation to those whose business is armaments, by a transformation no less astonishing. This innocent airship, which left the Ciampino Airdrome with all its young ideals unbesmirched, and is dragged over the Appian Way where Emperors marched in triumph, as a vicious "BLUNT CIGAR," he fiendishly converts into nothing less than a "LONG SILVER BULLET...
Amundsen. While their airship Norge gathered her strength at Leningrad for the hop from Europe to Spitzbergen, Explorers Amundsen and Ellsworth disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...
...mooring mast. The populace had no chance to turn out again, nor government officials again to climb to the roof of Parliament, for she took her departure for Russia at midnight to escape rising winds. Over the Baltic Sea it was a cold, foggy night. Unprotected in the airship's gondola, unable even to sit down save on camp-stools or the keel, the staff made a bad night of it. About noon the fogs cleared, but radio communication with earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south...
...flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...