Word: ballooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Krock suggested that a hint of cheaper gold prices might be useful in negotiating trade and money pacts with Britain, the Empire being by all odds the world's biggest gold producer.* Even if the Administration did not loose the gold rumor as a trial balloon, it certainly did not shoot it down on sight...
...years older than the State of Oregon and biggest single business in the State is Portland's famed Meier & Frank department store. Last week Meier & Frank's show windows were filled with homely relics loaned by the Oregon Historical Society, while its elevator girls put on the balloon skirts of the 1850s to celebrate the store's eightieth anniversary. Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, Meier & Frank proposed to let its employes and the public in on ownership of the business, filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for sale by the stockholders...
...motcur canon had other drawbacks. Being a single-loader, it was hard to handle a Spad, keep a weather eye around and keep the canon fed. The fuses were supersensitive, for balloon work, likely to explode if poked hastily into the gun in the excitement of a brawl. If the pilot was not to miss with his single shell, he had to climb practically aboard the enemy plane before firing. If the Spanish Loyalists insist on World War ordnance, they might be better pleased with the 11 mm. Vickers-AIaxim machine gun, which heaved incendiary slugs of impressive size...
Outstanding phenomenon of the ascent was the thick and phosphorescent appearance of the balloon ropes at greater elevations. This, Major Stevens explained, was caused by escape of sea level air and water vapor from the fibers of the rigging, at a pressure one-fifth of normal, which formed a foggy cloud around each rope...
Declaring his intention of making another ascent soon, Major Stevens, world's greatest expert on aerial photography and guest lecturer of the University, stated that with a new balloon of volume five million cubic feet he believed a new height of 90,000 feet would be set against the present mark...