Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This damned thing has gone nuts!" One day last week that remark was radioed down to Earth from a crippled balloon high in the stratosphere. It represented the supreme frustration of three army officers marooned in a purple-black sky at 60,000 ft. Their rubberized gasbag, biggest ever, yawned with an enormous...
...cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...
...been carried to a higher court in which Son Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg has twice testified as a witness for Dr. Gereke. Well posted observers suspected President von Hindenburg of putting pressure on Chancellor Hitler to hush up the Gereke affair and of sending up a von Papen trial balloon to test the solidity of the Nazi State...
...ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
Glory-Seekers. Up into the stratosphere last week soared the Bartsch von Sigsfeld, biggest balloon in Germany. Aboard were Dr. Hermann Victor Masuch, meteorologist, and Dr. Franz Martin Schrenk, pilot. Their purpose was to rise 32,800 ft., study cosmic rays, bring glory to the Reich. Next day scientist, pilot and balloon were reported missing. Day after in Russia, near the Latvian border, was found the wreckage of the Bartsch von Sigsfeld. In it was Meteorologist Masuch, dead. Nine miles away lay Pilot Schrenk, also dead...