Word: ballooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy approach to the fields where pilots stood ready to gun the 1,000-h.p. engines of 800 quick-climbing Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. The Territorial Army probed cloudbanks with searchlights, traced the paths of the invading bombers with the long snouts of their anti-aircraft guns. In London balloon barrage crews, on the alert 24 hours a day, inflated their tricky sausages and let them up 700 feet-far lower than would be needed to entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters signaled contact with the raiders by flashing lights, which were checked by staff observers. Effectiveness of the bombers...
Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
...helium (trapped in subterranean rocks in Utah and Texas) to buoy dirigibles which, commercial now, might become military. Last week Secretary of State Hull released 220,000 cubic feet to Germany's neighbor Poland, whose favor is currently courted by the dictatorships & democracies. Stated purpose: stratosphere balloon ascension...
Since Blue Hill's original "cigar-box" radiosonde recorder was invented by Karl O. Lange in 1936, dozens of ascents have been made in the stratosphere, as high as 79,000 feet. The "cigar-box" is drawn up into the heights by a large hydrogen balloon...
While the nation pondered these prosaic devices to protect it from disaster brewing abroad, up popped a trial balloon for a scheme far from prosaic. The balloonist: William Stix Wasserman, a big, self-assured Philadelphian...