Word: ballooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving southward behind the heaviest prolonged artillery and air bombardment put down in Spain's two-year-old civil war, Rightist forces of Generalissimo Franco, aiming for Valencia, last week burst and flattened a Leftist balloon-shaped salient of some 200 sq. mi. in their lines, advanced to within 34 miles north-west of their goal...
...rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean waves every 15 minutes...
...sequel to Monday's balloon-bursting episode in Lowell House was provided yesterday when a chubby hydrogen filled blimp soared to the ceiling during dinner. Resourceful Bellboys, undismayed by the situation, reached up and grasped a string hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however, a prankster held a lighted match to the balloon's capacious belly. Members of the House were startled to see a large orange flame a la Hindenburg appear in mid-air accompanied by a small peal of thunder...
Minkler shot down a big gas balloon which had been hovering on the ceiling of the dining room despite various efforts to capture it since it mysteriously appeared yesterday morning...
...fatal shot which brought down the balloon was greeted with peals of Applause...