Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coupe-4-cyl. FORD CHEVROLET 52 CHRYSLER WHIPPET STAR STAR $550 $625 $870 $755 steel Fisher Hayes-Hunt steel pyroxylin Duco Duco paint steel spoke steel disc wood wood 4 2 2 4 balloon balloon balloon balloon 104" 103" 106" 101 H" Triplex plate plate plate hydraulic none none Gabriel...
There are pictures and plans of various air ports of the United States, as well as a miniature of Boston's airport. Among the historic material are Leonardo da Vinci's "Studies of Bird Flights". Archimedes' "Geometry and Hydraulics", and a picture and account of a balloon inflation and ascension in France in 1785, as well as much magazine material, including contemporary periodicals...
...will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed's best speech...
...from the River of Doubt to the Xingu River. Soon boa constrictors will slip down into the jungle centres; monkeys will set up a great chattering. Black Indians armed with heavy blades will slash down their one-time haunts to make way for future windshield wipers, floor mats, balloon tires. If Mr. Ford's plantation progresses in Brazil as Mr. Firestone's is progressing in Liberia, it should in ten years become a factor in the international rubber market...
...Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station...