Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided that the sides of the field should be banked, started grading by digging a deep marginal moat. Belatedly it was pointed out that the proposed embankment would be dangerous to footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval on which in the past two years two successive world's records for the mile have been...
...into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that the Navy...
...Lionel railroad sells from $1 to $350. The more expensive models are complete with a red railroad station marked LIONELVILLE, a sponge rubber roadbed moulded to look like rock ballast, a thick steel tunnel through which speeds a locomotive, fire box aglow, pulling a string of Lionel Line coaches. Lionel Corp. still makes stem-wind locomotives, but President J. (for Joshua) Lionel Cowen, who gave his middle name to the company, was a pioneer in electrification. Onetime apprentice with Henner & Anderson, early makers of dry batteries, he spent his teens inventing a flashlight, finding new uses in surgical instruments...
...Ford who had brought 150 moppets in busses to witness the spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside. The bal loon drifted southeast across Lake Erie, slowly rose to ten miles. Radio communi cation with the ground was fragmentary. Mrs. Piccard worried because she could not see the ground for clouds. Gas was valved and the balloon went down...
...when the Earl of Dunraven challenged for the America's Cup with Valkyrie III, he first charged that the owners of the defending yacht Defender had had ballast secretly and unfairly added at night, then that she had fouled Valkyrie at the start of the second race, and that the crowding of the spectator fleet endangered him. After crossing the line at the start of the third race, he withdrew unexpectedly and forfeited the series. After a celebrated "trial," in which Lord Dunraven failed to prove his charges, he was expelled from honorary membership in the New York Yacht...