Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land without loss...
...came down with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later, few miles away, the rain-sogged City of Omaha fouled a farmer's fence, spilled her crew to the ground. Army No. 1, an early favorite, downed next at 600 mi. after a terrific...
...whose pilot Roland J. Blair won the 1930 races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
...past 18 months transatlantic-steamship companies have been ploughing through heavy financial seas with little ballast aboard. Bookings have fallen off sharply despite all manner of inducements to tourists. Last summer first-class rates were cut 10% to 30%. Last month Cunard Steamship Co. resorted to instalment-plan ticket sales. Ostensibly to consider further rate reductions, the North Atlantic Passenger Conference met last week in Brussels. Before it had time to consider anything, U. S. Lines (which is not a member of the Conference) tossed a bomb into its midst...
...Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. ("Doc") Wiley, executive officer, who looks astonishingly like Herbert Hoover, speaks into a microphone leading to loudspeakers on the mooring-mast: "Everybody weigh off!" The ground crew of 250 slack their lines a trifle that officers may gauge the vessel's trim. Water ballast spills out here and there until the big ship rides evenly. Then from Commander Wiley: "Stand by to up ship!"-and his work for the moment is over. Within the control car he motions to his skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery ("Rosie") Rosendahl, that all is ready. The commander leans from...