Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white or blue, and each graduate had remembered to bring along a second colored chute which he released as he floated earthward. Fourteen other jumps during the day brought the total to 60, with no injuries...
...colored searchlights fingered an airplane circling high overhead. Presently the crowds below saw a figure dressed as Uncle Sam crawl out on its wing, drop off. Down shot Uncle Sam, the massed lights following him as their operators waited for a parachute to billow over his head. No 'chute billowed. Faster & faster fell Uncle Sam until the beams caught a silvery splash on the surface of Lake Michigan. Then they quickly swung away. Muttered the crowd: "A dummy, of course...
Favorite in the Coy Maid Purse, at Belmont Park (L. I.), last week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses...
...most States east of the Mississippi. Also some in the West and in Canada. Never had a serious accident except two drownings. These would not have happened had the riders not lost their belts- one was a lady. In her case a boat was there and caught the 'chute which did not get wet. The other time the operator was so close to shore a farmer pulled the 'chute out with a fence rail- a stick about 14 ft. long. I had a rider catch his 'chute on a cornice and swing into a lawyer...
...notion that a person who falls from a great height dies before striking the ground, was long ago exploded. But there remains room for curiosity about how it feels to fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated...