Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green's head jerked skyward, the crucifix dropped in the dirt. Physicians said that he died instantly...
Engineer Somervell wasted no time. Within two weeks President Roosevelt pressed a button at Hyde Park, which exploded a dynamite charge which shot a fountain of Florida earth skyward. Gangs of WPA workers and mules were set to cleaning the right of way. Just outside Ocala, Camp Roosevelt sprang into being as a huge construction base. The counties along the route formed a Florida Ship Canal Authority, voted a $1,500,000 bond issue to buy the right of way, a mile wide from Palatka to the Gulf. By last week 23.000 of the necessary 65.000 acres were acquired...
Last year, after months of ballyhoo, the stratosphere balloon of the U. S. Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society climbed erratically skyward, failed to make a new record, finally smashed dramatically but dismally to smithereens (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Last summer, after months more of ballyhoo, their second balloon popped before it got off the ground (TIME, July 22). Last week, after no ballyhoo at all, the same patched-up balloon finally set the record on which Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson had set their hearts...
...Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black Hills. There a hushed throng of 50,000 stared down into a floodlit bowl as Explorer II, latest & greatest stratosphere balloon, was made ready for its first ascent. Year ago Explorer I, latest & greatest of its day, had lurched reluctantly skyward from the same natural amphitheatre near Rapid City. At 60,000 ft. the great bag had popped open, plummeted in tatters. Saving themselves by last minute parachuting, the three balloonists lost most of their scientific data, admitted the flight was a failure...
...every public square Berliners had indeed gathered joyfully, pointing skyward at the first German military escadrille to take the air officially since the Fatherland was beaten, exulting over & over "Those are our planes! Our planes!" Proudest of all was the grim old dowager Baroness von Richthofen, mother of Germany's late greatest war ace. To her wrote General Goring, Air Minister and Premier of Prussia...