Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stunt and decidedly not on the program was the shattering accident 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...
...best known to newspapermen as the clever promotion expert who undertook in 1927 to make America reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen, Mr. Newman acclimated his animals to Klaxon horns, Ford motors and shouting Eskimo youngsters while still in Alaska, coaxed them from a moss...
...milk ice cream. Last week Spit's case came before Magistrate Kross for disposition. Swaggering, Spit announced he had turned down the job. Said he: "I told the guy I'd shove the goat down his throat. Goats stink; the salary stinks, too. It was a publicity stunt. I can get better jobs than that; besides, I want...
...separate vocational and academic "tracks" in the high schools, eliminating mathematics from the list of required high-school subjects, directing that pupils do their homework not at home but in the classroom. When infantile paralysis delayed opening of the schools this fall, he staged an education-by-radio stunt. Last week Superintendent Johnson came out with the most spectacular and revolutionary decree he has yet handed down...
Countries that have developed cargo carrying by air from a stunt into an industry generally have two things in common: rich inaccessible regions and inadequate systems of highways and railroads. All records for airplane freight are held by the U. S. S. R. who claim a movement of 66,000,000 Ibs. last year and who recently flew 10,000 sheep to collective farms over 342 miles of the Turkmen Republic's desert. Canada, serving millions of square miles of lake-dotted, forested terrain above the "civilization line," annually handles 25,000,000 Ib. After the U. S., South...