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...Blimp in a Gale. When the wind over Manhattan whipped up to gale force Pilot Prescott Dixon of the Goodyear blirnp Columbia decided to get back to earth...
...throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which was undamaged...
...Petersburg Fla. Complaints were made that pilots of the Goodyear blimp Reliance made a practice of flying passengers low and slowly over the town's rootless solarium where sunbathers lounge unclad...
...World's Committee Dr. John R. Mott, was enhanced by dedication ceremonies at a new 16-story Y. M. C. A. building in Akron, where the dirigible Akron was soon to be christened. Greetings from President Hoover were carried from Washington by plane, transferred to a blimp at the Akron Municipal airport, dropped by parachute to a group of "Y" members atop the new building. Nineteen runners, each sprinting two half-mile laps, carried more greetings to Akron in the form of a scroll from Chairman Mott at the Cleveland Auditorium...
...limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek. These pictures showed bathing beauties riding under water on pickerel, an old-time chorus girl on a high-wheel bicycle dropping from a blimp by parachute; a monkey-headed robin perched beside a nestful of dice...