Word: balloonists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels are stolen. Clarendon grabs the throne. London burns. The feminine plebs, weary of the Duke of Clarendon's despotism, picket him with ribald signs: Unfair to Organized Love; We Want Charles; Want Him BAD. Charles is restored and the "semi-opera" ends with the cast singing...
...puncture the balloons in an emergency. With Mingalone disappearing in a rain cloud at 2,500 ft., frantic Cameraman Coolidge and Father Mullen piled into their auto, dashed toward Saco where Mingalone seemed to be heading. Two miles from the take-off their hopes rose as they sighted Balloonist Mingalone scudding along 600 ft. above. Rain had soaked his clothes, brought the balloons down-to 600 ft. Rifleman Mullen jumped from the car, chanced a shot at the balloons 25-ft. above Mingalone's head, missed. His second shot punctured two of the spheres. To the great relief...
...atmosphere. An observer at an altitude of 25,000 ft., however, has two-thirds of the effective atmosphere beneath him. To that altitude a Pan-American Grace Airliner mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which he showed last week at Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, after they had been given a scientific bill of health by a conference of 50 astronomers at Harvard. The pictures showed a vast, globular corona reaching out from...
...three methods of releasing or destroying balloons: 1) scissors to cut the balloon cords; 2) explosives on the balloon cords; 3) a .22 calibre pistol. Before landing he used all three. Either the explosives or the gunfire set afire the balloons, which were inflated with hydrogen, and the balloonist barely managed to scramble down the tree before the gondola was enveloped in flames. Somewhat shaken but unhurt except for scratches and bruises, he sent a classic telegram to Mrs. Piccard, herself a stratosphere veteran: "Landed safely, Lansing, Iowa. Balloon under perfect control. All equipment burned...