Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades on any Main Street...
...Balloon Game: First, Miss Coe '51; second, Miss Hughes '49; third, Hope Ingersoll '50; fourth, Carol Jones '49. Bareback Riding: First, Miss Thomas '49; second, Miss coe '51; third, Miss Neboldin '50; fourth, Miss Parsons...
Sophomore riders copped the runner up spot by placing first in the remaining two activities. Gloria Rosenbaum '51 took the intermediate horsemanship, while in a "break-the-ballon" game, Charlottes Coe '51 kept the balloon tied to her waist and intact the longest...
...unmanned "sounding balloon" has risen to 140,000 feet (26½-miles), breaking the altitude record for any man-made object except rockets. So the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced last week. The balloon, released over Belmar, N.J. carried 2½ pounds of instruments which radioed data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. The maximum altitude was deduced from the pressure signals; the balloon disappeared behind clouds at about 40,000 feet, was not seen again...
Made of thin Neoprene latex (synthetic rubber), the balloon was about 17 feet in diameter while on the ground. It was partially inflated with hydrogen, which expanded it into a sphere only when it reached 35,000 feet. Rising still higher, the balloon stretched itself to 75 feet in diameter before it finally burst...