Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocket ships. He held that in time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...
...demand the cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine and have put British High Commissioner General Sir Arthur Grenfell null sufficiently on the spot to make him welcome mediation between Britons and Arabs by the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Nuri Pasha as Said. This Moslem statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner was this "leak" well out in London than Jewish...
...operative Wholesale Society, No. 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, England...
First Black Legionary of note to be arrested after the twelve "Republicans" was balloon-eared, tight-lipped Ray Ernest, Jackson State Prison guard, reputedly a "brigadier general." With four others he was accused of lashing another WPA worker, of fatally flogging a fellow prison guard who had tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have...
Once Dr. Francis E. ("$200 Per Month") Townsend declared that he favored Borah-for-President, later withdrew his endorsement. Last week before 8,000 oldsters in Los Angeles he issued a trial balloon for a new type of Townsend ticket. Said...