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...Greenwich Mean Time on Aug. 9-10, Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber balloon. Hanging from many a balloon will be a small wireless transmitter whose whine will indicate which way the wind blows, to men listening at wireless direction-finders...
When the weather map showed winds from the south, pilots of the six balloons about to cast off from Omaha in the annual National Balloon Race scurried about for firearms, fishing tackle, emergency rations. Prizes of the race were the Litchfield Trophy and third place on the U. S. team for the international races next September.† With south winds, to win might mean sailing far into the Canadian wilds...
Still aloft after 17 hr. were Goodyear VII, whose pilot Roland J. Blair won the 1930 races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
Among the Fascist Deputies elected was Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Wilhelm II and "First Hohenzollern in a Republican Parliament." The People's Party, famed when it was led by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, collapsed like a pricked balloon. The Communists barely held their own. Triumphant Adolf Hitler, who has stumped the Fatherland by air at a man-killing pace, rolled up for his Fascist Party in Prussia the imposing plurality...
...help Comrade Pourmal make giant gas bags with the abandon of a lusty infant blowing bubbles, Italy's famed General Umberto Nobile will shortly arrive in Moscow, will become the technical brains behind Russia's balloon blowing...