Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German film trust, hired the Professor to help produce a spaceship movie called The Girl in the Moon. As a publicity stunt for the movie's premiere, Oberth was to launch a tremendous rocket of his own design at a deserted spot on the Baltic coast. The rocket failed to go off and the humiliated professor retired from public view...
Today's issue of the SERVICE NEWS, you will notice, is marked "Free Copy." It is being distributed without expectation of remuneration. Why do we do this, you ask, gentle reader. Well, it's an advertising stunt; we gotta live. Why should we try to deceive you? Why should we ennoble ourselves? This morning's paper is just a sample of what you'll find on your doorstep every Tuesday and Friday morning if you come up to the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton Street, and give us your ten bits...
...however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales of the new Spring issue, which for the first time in years showed, signs of passing the figures of "The Embalmers Journal," Poon officials declined to state...
Flat-Tired Take-Off. Major Gilbert Wymond, a Thunderbolt pilot from Kentucky, tried the unheard-of stunt of loading his P47 with two 1,000-lb, bombs. The load squashed his fully inflated tires nearly flat on the takeoff, but he staggered into the air. Since then P47 pilots have lugged two 1,000-pounders as a matter of routine...
...Assistant Secretary, Johnson notably worked to promote safety in commercial aviation. In 1937 he blocked a projected transatlantic air race to Paris, as a reckless "stunt." He helped push through Congress the Merchant Marine...