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...enclosed clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express would indicate that our local "Balloon Man" was hit shortly after I read about one you described...
...Nearing completion in Moscow is a super-safe stratosphere balloon made of waterproof muslin. If something goes wrong at high altitude, the bag is designed to spread into the shape of a parachute, land men and equipment without damage...
...comfortable, "it became apparent that the patient was literally blowing himself up more and more with each respiration. Within two-and-a-half hours of his admission [to the hospital], his appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were level; his arms, hands and even his fingertips were distended with air, and were tympanitic on percussion. His abdomen, legs and particularly his scrotum were greatly enlarged. The scrotum was about the size of a football...
...Radio Homing Compass is simplicity itself. You tune in on a commercial broadcast, listen to Paul Whiteman or Father Coughlin. Then you switch off the earphones, turn on the bearing-indicator. A pointer on the instrument-board dial guides you so accurately to the broadcasting station that if a balloon were sent up from it on a string you would cut the string in half, flying blind. By taking cross-bearings on two broadcasting stations you can determine your position to a hair's breadth...
Yesterday morning's editorial on the munitions question was a step towards the proper realistic point of view, but the whole popular pacifist balloon of ballyhoo needs more pricking than that. The current tendency to make black-bearded goats out of the armament maker appears to have anesthetized the national press; the mouthed righteousness of the political idealists in their scramble to mulct credit from the cause of peace has dangerously perverted a constructive situation into a heydey for the Hearsts. Internationalism may or may not be born to blush unseen in this ugly age: no question...