Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Rudginsky, a Winthrop, Mass., tire dealer, packed up to go home. With him was Kid Boots Ace, better known as Timmie, his 13-lb. Boston terrier, who had just won first prize in the Western Boston Terrier Club show. Mr. Rudginsky put his thoroughbred into a black fibre bag bearing his initials in red letters. In the hotel lobby he put the case down, stepped away a few feet to say good-by to some friends. When he stepped back case and dog were gone...
...Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...
Against such a background Walter Wellman became the talk of two continents when in 1910 he attempted to fly from Atlantic City to Europe in the rebuilt America, with a crew of five and a mascot kitten. The America had a bag 228 ft. long filled with hydrogen generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water...
...Winter weather had contracted the balloon's gas to such a point that it fell like a dead weight. 2) Ice weighted it down. 3) Some instrument outside the gondola chafed at the shroud lines until they broke, thus allowing the gondola to fall free from the bag. One discovery was made, to heighten the honor of Aeronauts Fedeseemko, Oususkin &Vasenko as their ashes were laid away in the Kremlin wall. A logbook and barograph, still intact, showed that the balloon had climbed...
Last week Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron was awarded the contract for a balloon with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record...