Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question first arose in the U. S. in 1822 when a man named Swan crashed his balloon on a Mr. Guille's farm in New York State. Crowds rushed in, spoiled Guille's flowers and the court ordered Swan to pay damages. In 1930, Frederick & Raymond Swetland tried to enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta...
Ultraviolet radiation has a propensity for knocking electrons off molecules and thus creating ions-electrified particles. In the tenuous upper atmosphere of earth, far higher than any balloon has ascended, there are several layers of such ions which increase in density during sunspot peaks. This is to be expected since sunspots are accompanied by heavier ultra violet bombardment. These electrified layers serve to deflect most radio waves, curve them around the bulge of earth. In radio's pioneer days, when only one layer was known, it was called the Kennelly-Heaviside layer after its discoverers. Now the electrified region...
...Three pages about Queen Mary's hats, with the late George V remarking, balloon-wise like a comic-strip character, ''Mary, I don't like that hat. I can't see your hair...
...eyes, queer-shaped wings and bald thoraxes in Drosophila melanogaster, the little fruit fly made famous by the genetic researches of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Many a geneticist suspects that the impacts of cosmic rays also start mutations working in the germ plasm. When the National Geographic Society's balloon Explorer II made its record-breaking flight into the upper air last year, Dr. Victor Jollos of the University of Wisconsin sent jars of fruit flies up with it, outside the gondola. The insects died of cold, but offspring hatched from eggs laid during the flight developed five times...
Actress Lillie's cool impersonations of women in various outrageous situations are probably employed to greater effect in this show than in any other in her long and hilarious professional lifetime. Any Lillie fan who misses her splendid pre-War number. "Buy Yourself A Balloon," sung while uncomfortably suspended over the audience in an electrically lighted quarter-moon, will be missing the high point of this comedienne's career. She is also pretty funny as a noisy first nighter, a haughty Theatre Guild box-office clerk, a strip tease artist. Best tunes: Now (Vernon Duke & Ted Fetter), Little...