Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contained in bags and permits the ship to carry a paying load in place of the many tons of gasoline which used to be an essential weight. Furthermore, as its specific gravity is nearly the same as air, its consumption does not necessitate a constant shifting of ballast as in the case when tanks of liquid fuel are being emptied...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...
Useful load: Crew and passengers, oil and fuel, ballast other than emergency, ordnance and portable equipment...
Free balloon: An aerostat without a propelling system whose ascent and descent may be controlled by use of ballast or with a loss of the contained gas, whose direction is determined by wind...
German Republic. The Centre-Right Cabinet of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx is founded upon a perhaps not unshakable rock ballast of coalition support, but the German Republic has long gone forward, irrespective of cabinet changes, under four perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than...