Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balloon Race...
Chicago's smart visitor today knows Quigley's place, under the bare forearm of the Palmolive Building. He hears crack dance bands at the Drake, drinks his drink in the gaudy Balloon Room. But the historical panorama of Chicago reveals scenes far more polychromatic...
...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...
Senator Bingham Blimps. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut last week was inspecting the balloon hangars at Langley Field, Va. Came urgent summons to attend the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on the tariff at Washington, 140 miles away. Capt. William J. Flood of the Army Air Corps, who earlier in the year landed a blimp on the roof of the Munitions Building in Washington, offered and proceeded to blimp the senator to "the front door of the capitol," depositing him conveniently in the plaza near the Senate wing. Predicted the most air-conscious senator: "That's the way all congressmen...
...First air crossing of the Channel occurred in 1785, in a hydrogen-filled balloon piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard...