Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having Senator William Gibbs McAdoo are dancing, flying. In Washington the National Aeronautic Association, of which he is president, held a dance to award its annual "certificates of reward & performance." Senator McAdoo handed scrolls to twelve doughty aviators and Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, first licensed woman balloon pilot, who ascended 57,559 ft. into the stratosphere with her husband, Dr. Jean Piccard...
...Inflation," says Mr. Kiplinger, "is like filling a deflated balloon. It doesn't rise until it has reached a certain stage of fullness. Then it tears upward...
...which the President-Hoover-thought of some importance. After he had eaten luncheon in his private car, Mr. Roosevelt's advisers gathered around the table. Of the five who were there to counsel him on the responsibilities he was to assume, several were quite obscure. There was a balloon-jowled professor, Raymond Moley, and a handsome but obscure young doctor (Ph. D.), Rexford Guy Tugwell. There also was a man with some reputation in business circles, the president of American Car & Foundry Co., Mr. William Woodin. One adviser whom the public might have recognized was Diplomat Norman Hezekiah Davis...
...Landauer has other fancies: She gathers old writing paper, bookplates, lottery tickets, railroad passes, war letters, wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since...
...addition to moving pictures of the preparations and take-off and of the movements of the balloon in flight several miles above the earth, Captain Stevens showed several photographs of the earth's surface taken at high altitudes through the bottom of the gondola in which the men were enclosed. Lantern slides pictured some of the processes used in the construction of a balloon and explained the highly complicated scientific and mechanical apparatus which the balloon contained...