Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take up replicas to heights of from 20,000 to 25,000 ft. Co-inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope was in a free balloon to 9.6 miles, a height surpassed by Professor Piccard last year, and again last week. Last fortnight Professor Erich Regener of the Institute of Technology at Stuttgart despatched a free balloon from Stuttgart. Attached were a self-recording altimeter and electroscope. The balloon returned to earth, close to home...
...Auguste Piccard, the stratosphere is not merely a remote layer of the atmosphere. It is an environment, a kingdom, a marvelous sea in which to swim; an Olympus from which to survey Earth's glories. Last week for the second time Professor Piccard penetrated the stratosphere in a balloon. His purpose, as last year, was to study the cosmic rays. But his Shelleyesque spirit was that of a voyager revisiting a world which only he had explored...
When newsmen at Zurich, Switzerland last week wondered why Professor Auguste Piccard continued to postpone his balloon ascension into the stratosphere, even when weather appeared favorable, the long-haired, long-necked Belgian professor told them: "I promised Mme Piccard that I would not do anything foolish." In fact Mme Piccard, whose fifth child was born a few months ago, once made her husband promise not to make the flight at all. That was last year, just after he and his assistant, Charles Kipfer, had ballooned 51,700 ft. into the heavens- higher than man had ever before climbed...
...Piccard insisted upon one final precaution. When Professor Piccard and Assistant Cosyns start skyward from Dubendorf Airdrome, airplanes and racing automobiles will set out. to be near the spot where the balloon comes to rest. In one of the automobiles will be Mme Piccard...
...familiarly around board rooms. On the two biggest days the U. S. Treasury gained nearly $235,000 in transfer taxes. Total value.of all stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange was boosted $10,000,000,000.00. Entering this week, the rising market began to look like an oldtime balloon ascension, the public rushing in to cause a 5,500,000-share Monday...