Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland attacked the problem by land and air. In the air a Goodyear blimp lazily circled over St. Louis day & night urging from banners and neon-lit signs: COME TO CLEVELAND IN 1936. Below, lighter spirits dragged a bed all over town invited ladies to try the mattress. Across it were the legends: CLEVELAND FOR A PERFECT '36-CURB SERVICE...
...personally put his city's bid in for 1937. Even more foresighted, the town of Closter, N. J. (pop. 2,502) announced its candidacy for the 1976 meeting place, by which time its supporters claimed it would have absorbed New York, 20 mi. away. Cleveland's bed & blimp...
Tommy Husband has been elected to move into Gaffney's old post, where he will be flanked on one side by 209-pound Graham "Blimp" Spring at left tackle, and on the other by chunky Bob Jones at center...
...only in subways does Mrs. Tubman sing the National Anthem. She has sung it in an Army blimp 3,000 ft. in the air, in a submarine, a coal mine, on ships at sea, in jails, insane asylums, "on the highest mountains in Switzerland," over the radio, in schools, churches and homes. Says she: "I'm always the first to sing it. I never let anyone get ahead...
...Also at Lakehurst are two blimps (one metal-clad). Last week Secretary Swanson ordered the Navy's lighter-than-air base at Sunnyvale, Calif.-home port of the late Macon-converted for heavier-than-air training, planned to concentrate all future lighter-than-air activities at Lakehurst. A third Navy blimp, still at Sunnyvale, will be transferred to Lakehurst...