Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haste Boss Seipel rushed back to Vienna. Certainly if he recovers his health, if he exerts all his might to prevent the Zollverein he can do so?for a time. But the diplomacy of the two smart Teutons is for the long pull. By blowing up a trial balloon last week so tremendous that it overshadowed Europe, they turned the dream of Austro-German union into something concrete, something Austro-German public opinion can be educated to demand forcibly...
...Balloon...
...Omaha, Neb. last November, Mrs. Robert Tunberg got a balloon with her name and address on it as a favor at a dinner-party. She released it. Last week she said she had received a letter from Henry A. Prentice, miner, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who said...
...went out of fresh meat and I tracked a bear up the canyon and dropped him on a high ledge. On the way up I found the balloon...
After the war Professor Lowe made a few captive balloon ascensions at New York and Philadelphia, but they were financial failures. Then he gave up the business, sold his apparatus to the Brazilian government. In 1867 he received patents for a process of making artificial ice. Later he achieved fame for methods of making and applying water gas in heating and lighting...