Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Texas and planned to be lawyers, but World War I changed that. Barney went straight in as an air cadet; Benny was commissioned an infantry shavetail but switched to aviation in less than a month. Both saw service in the U.S. and France; Benny busted a German balloon eight days before the Armistice in 1918. The brothers liked the service, and became Regular Army officers in July...
...What a chance we in management missed! From 1921 to 1930 we had everything all our own way. A friendly Administration in Washington. Low taxes. And a friendly public. And what did we do with our power? On the economic side we gave this country a balloon boom that had to burst. On the moral side we produced men like Insull and Hopson and Musica, who undermined confidence in business...
Drew Pearson (621 papers, circ. 18,000,000) is the most widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic...
...World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew in balloon races, once tested a submarine in New York Harbor. When he met House he was on his way to the Eastern Front as a U.S. military observer...
...master sergeant waxing a floor ... "Stand steady!" ... the waterless showers at Dillon Field House ... the sweet aroma de sweat at 85 degrees in the cage--and STILL they ask us to do deep breathing ... lectures and films on the tactical use of the 63 1/2 millimeter anti-balloon carbine (obsolete since 1906) ... trying to read the SERVICE NEWS through a maze of misprints and proof readers' lapses ... all the things we'd like to print but don't dare...