Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience-boosting giveaways, WTIX recently assigned one of its six disk jockeys to throw away dollar bills from a downtown rooftop at rush hour. When the disk jockey was hauled off to jail for stopping traffic, 1,000 sympathetic listeners were persuaded by WTIX to go down and bail him out. WTIX fans also boosted the station from eleventh to first place in less than a year; advertisers' billings have soared...
Stranger Than Fiction. In Memphis, Howard Miller, hoping to brush off an old girl friend, told her that he was wanted in seven states by the police, was picked up when cops got wind of his tale, then jailed on a genuine forgery charge when he paid his bail with a phony $100 check...
...last week's Chicago meeting of the Aero Medical Association, the Navy and Douglas Aircraft Co. described their solution to the high-speed bail-out problem: a detachable cockpit. It would form the whole nose of the airplane and would contain all the expensive instruments and electronic gadgets, which are nice to salvage along with the pilot. It would also be standardized, so that the same cockpit would fit the bodies of many different airplanes...
...When a bail-out is indicated, the pilot throws a switch, and the capsule cockpit separates neatly from the rest of the airplane. Since the pilot is still behind a streamlined windbreak, he does not get the full impact of deceleration. A small parachute opens and keeps the capsule headed into the wind. When it has slowed down enough, a big parachute opens and lowers it to the ground...
Clipped Bond. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested for writing checks without the money to cover them, Robert E. Bennett was jailed after remarking, as the court fixed his bond at $1,000, "Can I give you a check for the bail, judge...