Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of Swiss soil 9 ft. by 10 ft. on which died Astrid, Queen of the Belgians, was purchased last week by His Majesty Leopold III, still cruelly torn by pangs of grief and remorse. In his castle at Brussels the King continues to reflect that Astrid, to whom he was wholly devoted, would be at his side today if an instant's inattention had not sent the car he was driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...
Down a runway at Wright Field, Dayton, one day last week roared the huge Boeing 299, largest landplane ever built in the U. S., on a routine test flight for a possible Army contract (TIME, July 15). Because the 70-ft., metalclad monster with its four machine-gun turrets, 6-ton bomb capacity and speed of 256 m.p.h. was regarded as the greatest battle plane ever designed, two young officers, Lieutenants Leonard F. Harman and Robert K. Giovannoli, looked up with interest as it fled past them down the field. Suddenly, when the four-motored plane was nearly 200 ft...
Married. Sabin W. Carr, onetime world pole-vault record holder (14 ft.), winner of that event in the 1928 Olympic Games; and Laura de Rham, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...guns, when mail was held up at the nearest post office for as long as six months, Jules fought with his neighbors, his three succeeding wives, with the law, with fellow-countrymen and friends in his determination to defend his property. While digging a well he was dropped 65 ft., abandoned by Swiss immigrants who were helping him and who were responsible for the accident. Staggering toward an Army camp he collapsed, was found, fought with the doctor who wanted to amputate his foot. Anticipating his death, his fellow-pioneers tried to seize his few possessions. Weaklings could not endure...