Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until this letter had well sunk in, Chancellor Hitler lay low last week, then sent up an amazing trial balloon. Nov. 10 will be the 450th birthday of Martin Luther. Flatly acting ReichsbischoF Müller stated that the Chancellor would then renounce Catholicism, become a Protestant and join "The National Evangelical Church." Since Reichsbischof Müller is Herr Hitler's close friend this announcement thunderstruck the Fatherland. Were even Catholics going to be dragooned into a National Church, a Nazi Church? For half a day Chancellor Hitler let the sensation sizzle. Suddenly he decided that Catholics must...
...current issue of TIME (May 29) under Aeronautics I was somewhat surprised at some of the statements. In the first place, if I stay on earth till June 6 I will have been here 63 years. I have been in the balloon business over 30 years. I have never filled a bag in ten minutes, and it takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others...
...rest of the issue is taken up with articles of about the same calibre, all adept pricks at the American balloon, To many the Mercury's violent iconoclasm seems puerile; those whom it attacks quite naturally brand the publication with various derogatory appellations when they see the opportunity. With all the criticisms and animadversions which may justly or otherwise, be levelled at its insouciant head it remains a delight to a sizeable band of loyal readers. The first glow of boldness has died away, and the Mercury proceeds undimmed; the fact is that a thoroughly prejudiced and unafraid needing...
Altogether the performance was tame for the Bonettes who are not brothers but father and adopted son. The father, "Professor" Clarence C. Bonette, 61, looks like Adolf Hitler and has a complete mouthful of gleaming gold teeth. He has been ballooning and jumping for exactly 40 years. He was taught by Sam Baldwin of the late famed Baldwin Brothers who began barnstorming soon after the Civil War and had a "balloon farm" near Quincy, Ill. Father Clarence, who limps, boasts that he has at various times broken every bone in his body. Says he: I'm a fatalist...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...