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Several days ago Senator Borah expertly launched a political balloon. In a letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt he raised from the dead the old issue of monopoly. In effect he demanded that the son of the old "trust-buster" rally to the old cause and, not altogether without design, managed to get his own name plastered over the nation's front pages...
Glistening like huge soap bubbles in the sunshine, 13 gas bags from seven nations drifted up from Warsaw one afternoon last week in the 23rd annual International Gordon Bennett Balloon Race. Last away was Polonia of Poland, winning nation in 1933 and 1934. Wise in the ways of local air currents, the Polish pilots shot far higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they...
...make the victory even more emphatic, another Polish entry won second place. Far in the ruck was the lone U. S. balloon which met adverse winds, staggered to a stop only 520 miles from the start...
...Meteorological Station, perched on the summit of Great Blue Hill in greater Boston, has continued uninterrupted weather observations for fifty years. Equipment includes pilot balloon apparatus, radiation receivers, and an instrument for recording night cloudiness besides the more familiar, thermometers, hygrometers, and barometers. Sub-stations are maintained on Mt. Washington. Mt. Wachusett, Mt. Monadnock, and in Cambridge...
...engineers in cars which unreeled telephone cable as they ran, followed by Brig. General Ford in a station wagon, followed by the tanks, followed by the 4.400 men (peace strength) of the Division aboard 525 trucks and batteries of 75's rolling along at 30 m.p.h. on balloon tires. An unmotorized division could not have made the required march in less than 24 hours. The Germans in their record-breaking march through Belgium reached the unheard of figure of 20 miles a day. The motorized First Division, frequently flagged to a halt by umpires who told the advance units...