Word: gondolas
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...show's fun. Rushing headlong through scene after scene, he is successively and inexhaustibly a plumber, a French general, a Hungarian doctor, a tabloid editor, a victim to his lawyer ("For Gott sake gif him de two dollas!"), a mustachioed French lover crawling over a blonde in a gondola...
Also noticeable is the smallness of the Akron's control car compared to the passenger gondola of the Graf Zeppelin. Not built for sightseers, the car accommodates only the officers and crew actually directing and navigating the ship. Inside the envelope are the captain's quarters, the radio room, the photographic laboratory...
...make room for the scientists, their bulky equipment and stores, the Graf's normal crew was reduced from 41 to 30 and the cabin radically remodeled. The ship's outward appearance, too, was altered by the addition of a large rubber pontoon bottom to the gondola, for sealanding...
...rough homespun and a towering collar, was Auguste Piccard, 47, Swiss professor of physics in the University of Brussels. The other was his assistant, Charles Kipfer, 20 years his junior. On their heads were baskets stuffed with pillows, to cushion them in case of a sudden drop of their gondola. They had been preparing for this ascension since last summer, had tried and failed last autumn (TIME, Sept. 22) and were now aloft largely because of the backing of King Albert's favorite Fund for Scientific Research. Their purpose: to study the intensity of cosmic rays in the stratosphere...
...forced to wait until the cool of evening contracted the hydrogen in the balloon's bag which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above inside. Their drinking water ran out. They resorted to licking the condensed moisture from the walls of their cabin...