Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Beebe's bathysphere record is 3,028 ft...
...that obliterated two planes, killed two racing pilots in the first day's events. Zipping around a pylon in specially designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed from the wreckage, young Widow Kling said sadly: "Today was Rudy...
...inhale, doctors have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction of the windpipe makes breathing difficult. It is also of value to deep-sea divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max Nohl demonstrated last week when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record was 306 ft., set in 1915 by Frank Crilley of the U. S. Navy...
...quick ascent after a deep dive. Helium is so light that it tends to escape from the blood without forming bubbles of damaging size. Thus Nohl's suit considerably reduces the time necessary for a dive. But wishing to take no chances with his first 420-ft. try, he was brought up very slowly, in one hour and 45 minutes...
When he was derricked over the side of the Coast Guard cutter Antietam last week, his lines fouled at 200 ft. and he was brought back. Next time he got all the way down without difficulty. "Holy smoke," he yelled into his telephone, "I'm on the bottom." It was so dark that he could not see six inches. When he was hoisted back on board, the only thing that bothered him was cold feet...