Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy over the hill and around the corner, artillery has to put an observer where he can correct fire. This was easy from a balloon. But in 1942 high-powered planes have made balloons dangerously obsolete. Using commercial flivvers, artillery pilots hop up & down behind their own lines-just long enough to see where the shots are falling, and to radio corrections. Two graduate pilots and a full-time mechanic go to every field-artillery battalion...
Thiokol itself is not brand-new. It was accidentally discovered in 1929 by a chemist who was trying to concoct an antifreeze. Since 1930 it has been manufactured as a substitute for rubber, leather, cork. Typical uses: barrage balloon coatings, gas masks, gasoline hoses, washers, cable sheathing...
...Baltic States have been a specific point of issue in Russian discussions with the Allies. Renner's plan served as a trial balloon on this issue, and the howl that went up against Renner, especially on the part of small governments-in-exile, served warning that, if the large-state idea prevails after World War II, the green table of peace will rock...
...goods; New York City department-store inventories for April were 77% above last year, while sales showed only a 4% increase. To correct the maldistribution, WPB announced it would soon curtail both inventories and forward buying. Retailers, already jarred by price ceilings, were in a frenzy over a trial balloon "first draft" of the order. A department store that had hoarded too much in one department might be unable to restock in another unless it disgorged its oversupply. Overall cough-up, if that order should go through: 20-35% of current retail stocks...
Evidence of sabotage was near-conclusive. At Providence, R.I., it seemed strange that 15 fires should spring up in one area at once. At Keene, N.H., a small boy stumbled on to a burned-out candle in a paper bag attached to a small balloon...