Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth who went to Hollywood. ... As balloon-prickers, daubers of stuffed shirts and philosophical pranksters such men are worth any dozen efficiency experts. . . ." After he has learned the million-and-one do's and don't's of technique, and "not to ask the city editor how to get to Canarsie." and that "Women, wampum...
...results of the "trial balloon" Literary Digest poll must come as a surprise to the average citizen who has received the impression during the last year that the government would satisfy his merest whim. The fact that industry and agriculture however, have not gained confidence from this policy is probably responsible for the Administration's declining popularity. Should these results be further tested by a nation-wide survey before Election...
...well be proud of her flying sons. Month ago Polish flyers finished first and second in the fourth international air race for sporting planes, beating a field of 31 planes over a 5,900-mi. course through nine European countries. Last week, in the 22nd annual James Gordon Bennett balloon race at Warsaw, Polish flyers took not only the first two places, but the third as well. Winning balloon drifted 830 mi. to Ryazan, U. S. S. R. Chief excitement of the race was furnished by over-zealous Soviet frontier guards who fired at several of the balloons, hit none...
Plunging down 500 ft. a minute, the balloon ripped itself to shreds. At 12,000 ft. Major Kepner decided to abandon ship. First to leave the gondola was Capt. Anderson, at 5,000 ft. Capt. Stevens went next. Major Kepner waited until he was within 500 ft. of the ground before jumping with his parachute. All three landed safely. The gondola crashed on a farm near Loomis...
Said Capt. Stevens: "Everything worked perfectly except the balloon...