Word: blimpâ
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Jersey, a greyish bubble swaying over Lakehurst broke its anchor (a ground winch), sailed up and away toward the Atlantic. Three specks?an auto, an airplane, a blimp???gave chase. A figure in the passenger basket manipulated valves, lowered the bubble so that its dangling cable trailed across the landscape. Within four miles of the sea, the cable finally tangled itself in a tree. Rescuers pulled down Lieut. Frank J. Uhlig, U. S. Marines, deflated his kite balloon, took both home uninjured...
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