Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Killed. Harvey Powers, 47, "all around daredevil" (flagpole sitting, air clowning, skyscraper climbing); when, shot from a cannon on an airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City, his parachute failed to open. He had been doing the stunt daily for five weeks, waiting longer and longer before pulling the ripcord...
...Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth, instantly killed Stunt Pilot Ahearn...
...pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said: "It is a stunt, and an extremely dangerous stunt. The plan involves too much risk of human life to make any conceivable benefits which might be derived worth while. It would serve aviation no better than flagpole sitting for the same length of time...
Inspired by recent correspondence controversy in TIME I am conducting stunt here ... to determine if Chicagoans go to hear renowned soloists because of musical appreciation or lure of great names and social ballyhoo...
Will have nationally known violinist in guise of street fiddler lay bow to Stradivarius on Michigan Avenue in a curbstone concert citizens would pay $5-a-seat for if they knew what they were hearing. Stunt strictly on square with no packed audience. Will he stop the traffic on Michigan Avenue, musical centre of Midwest...