Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short time we shall attach this notable invention to a balloon." said a Siemens & Halske spokesman. "We shall anchor the balloon above Berlin at an altitude of 3.000 feet. Think of it! An entire city of 4.000.000 souls will hear whatever is played or spoken with perfect distinctness...
...time of war, when it might become necessary to blah-blah all enemy stations (with the enemy of course blah-blahing too), the balloon loudspeaker may prove to be of strategic value. With all radio broadcasting blocked, the President of Germany could still speak to all Berlin at once, and, by hooking up more balloon-speakers, to all Germany...
Came the Franco-Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...
While with the 51st Artillery, C. A. C. near Toul, France in 1918, I saw a lone enemy plane attack and destroy a captive balloon, miss a second, destroy a third, return and destroy the second, then fly home. The whole operation required but minutes, was done at a very low altitude (following a power dive) in broad day light, and in spite of the activities of anti-aircraft gunners stationed at balloon positions. I feel the same thing could be done today (TIME, June 23). I remember H. C. Barnes (then Major), onetime commander of our Battery...
Fifteen hydrogen balloons rode a southerly breeze out of Houston, Tex. last week to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Carried east by the shifting wind, ten of the bags were downed by storms near Texarkana, Ark. Two, the Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start...