Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since he came over from Germany, Lange has won fame as inventor of the "weather balloon," a device which transmits meteorological information by means of a small radio. A native of Woisbaden and a graduate of the University of Darmstadt, Lange had taught here for five years...
...years since he arrived from Germany, Lange gained fame as the inventor of the "weather balloon" which relays data on the conditions at high altitudes by means of a tiny radio transmitter, canceling the necessity of airplane observation flights...
Substitutes for rubber, rather than rubberlike elastomers, are Goodrich's Koroseal, Union Carbide & Chemical's Vinyon, etc. Most of these are synthetic resins, i.e., plastics flexible enough for use in hose, fuel-tank seals, etc. Thiokol, made by Dow Chemical Co., is used as a barrage-balloon coating by the Vulcan Proofing Co. of Brooklyn...
...pressure polymerize this substance into a tough, elastic product which looks much like crude natural rubber, but far surpasses it in resistance to age, heat, sunlight and gases. Thus neoprene is an excellent material for coating the 1,000,000 square yards of cotton in every U.S. barrage balloon. With remarkable foresight the U.S. Army last spring placed orders or laid plans with every large rubber processor in the country for production of hundreds of such balloons...
Since the fall of France, Bullitt has been on the sidelines except for an occasional odd job for the President, an occasional speech to inflate a trial balloon. Now he has a job that is up his alley...