Word: balloonized
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...These old prices have been adjusted to account for equipment (balloon tires, starter, etc.) charged as extras under the old schedule, now covered by the new prices...
...valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current and been blown across Germany to Krakow, 373 miles from...
...refused to make any advance statements; said he did not believe in hard and fast editorial "policies" or in dividing a city's readers into "classes." He said, "Folks are folks . . . I'm just a poor boy taking a balloon ride. I don't know where I'll come down...
...Italy, to South America, to Washington, to the U. S. training stations. The "Unit" furnished commanding officers for three air stations; also the nucleus of the Northern Bombing Group. Submarines were bombed, airplanes shot down by "Unit" members; Dave Ingalls became naval ace, with four planes and a balloon to his credit; Di Gates, Commander of an air-station, was recommended for the Congressional medal of honor for heroism. Three* of the "Unit" were killed-two in action. Destroyers were named for these two. Wherever there was naval aviation, there was a "Yale Unit" man. Admiral Sims said: "The great...