Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her husband had taken off eight hours before from Detroit's Ford Airport. She found herself on a wooded farm near Cadiz, Ohio. The big bag, limp, torn and empty, was dismally draped over a tall elm. In a treetop the Piccards' U. S. flag flapped bravely...
...Piccard flight barely missed coming to an end at the start last week. After months of waiting the balloon got off the field, two hours behind schedule, in sight of 45,000 spectators including two of the three Piccard children and Henry Ford who had brought 150 moppets in busses to witness the spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside...
...business college he showed promise of making an excellent clerk. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the U. S. ambulance service, rose to sergeant, transferred to the air service as a balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...
...people knew it. But the purpose of Mr. Sturges' speech was to attempt to fool the people of Hawaii into believing that the Island would be economically ruined if the H.S.P.A. won! The Islands were not fooled but were enraged. Officials in Washington admitted the speech was a "trial balloon"; and Mr. Sturges was "transferred...
...White House caller; they read a lot about the Roosevelt "truce" with industry and banking. And if there was still any doubt about the Administration's mellowing attitude, it should have been dismissed by the haste with which the President and his lieutenants shot down the little inflation balloon which hovered over Washington for a day or two last week. Just to be sure the balloon was grounded, the Treasury called nearly $2,000,000,000 of high-coupon Fourth Liberty Loan bonds for redemption six months hence, thus practically eliminating the possibilities of dollar-tinkering before next April...