Word: perl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inventor Perl calculates to leave the ground at 110 m. p. h., reach 310 m. p. h. in 20 minutes, attain the stratosphere by a direct climb at 45 degrees (instead of the usual circling) in 100 minutes, thereafter...
Last week one Heinz Guenther Perl, 21, precocious Berlin inventor who has belonged to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin since he was 15 (for inventing a table stove), averred that in four months he would fly through the cold, thin stratosphere. Professor Albert Einstein approved his plan on theoretical grounds. So did Count Georg Wilhelm Alexander Haus Arco, President of the Telefunken Co. (radio builders). So did professors at the Berlin Polytechnic Institute. So, in effect, did the enthusiastic New York Times which obtained and printed a long exclusive Perl interview...
...Perl plan is to build a 22-ft. duralumin fuselage shaped like a dirigible, hermetically sealed. Inside would be a compressor which would supply air at sea level pressure and warm it for the pilot and the motor (which would be within the fuselage). Outside would be the propeller, wings resembling those of a flying fish, and tail fins. Landing wheels would be retracted into the body...
Friday afternoon, in Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Pierre Monteux opened its forty third season, starting off, as is this year's fashion, with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, wading through the Brahms-Hayden variations, climbing over "La Perl" of Dukas, to the voluptuous heights of the dance of Salome, from Richard Strauss's opera of like name...