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...emerged he intimated that the American Legion, which fortnight ago demanded immediate cash prepayment of the Bonus and remission of interest on all loans made against bonus certificates, might be satisfied with mere remission of interest which by 1945 will have eaten well into the promised principal. The trial balloon did not get far. Frank Belgrano, new commander of the Legion, promptly retorted that the Legion meant to get everything it asked...
...quick and ignominious end in a Chicago railroad yard. On their second attempt Settle and Fordney reached 61,237 ft., which remains the official record. Much was hoped for, scientifically, from this flight. It had been planned to measure the directional variation of cosmic rays at great heights. The balloon spun round so rapidly during the flight that this could not be done. Jars of fruit flies were to be taken aloft to see if the cosmic rays would produce mutations. While the stratonauts were waiting for good weather the fruit flies died...
Last January three Soviet balloonists were killed when their gondola broke loose from the bag and plunged to earth. Last July the $1,000,000 stratoflight of Kepner and Stevens in the Explorer, biggest bag in history, came to grief when the balloon ripped at 60,000 ft. The balloonists had to take to their parachutes and most of their scientific instruments were smashed to smithereens...
...observing the drifting trails of meteors. Without benefit of balloonists Dr. Compton and others learned that cosmic ray intensity varies with latitude, and Dr. T. H. Johnson of the Bartol Foundation demonstrated that more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from the automatic electroscope aboard the Settle-Fordney balloon, one of the few real trophies...
...Undersecretary Tugwell, though it was assumed that he must have known in advance what each was going to say. In Great Britain, where pound-dollar pegging has long been desired, officials of His Majesty's Government wishfully said that they consider Ambassador Bingham's speech a "trial balloon...