Word: billowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those on the ground saw the white puff of his opening parachute, breathed easier. Then they held their breath for the parachute had only partly opened before tangling in the wings. Spinning head over heels, Stunter Davis plunged earthward. Groundlings waited anxiously for the second parachute to billow out. It never did. When they reached the body (see cut) the ripcord ring was still in place...
Died. Field Marshal Alexander von Kluck, 88, spearhead of the German onslaught on Paris in 1914; of old age; in Berlin. On the German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow's army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired...
...Chicago's Century of Progress colored searchlights fingered an airplane circling high overhead. Presently the crowds below saw a figure dressed as Uncle Sam crawl out on its wing, drop off. Down shot Uncle Sam, the massed lights following him as their operators waited for a parachute to billow over his head. No 'chute billowed. Faster & faster fell Uncle Sam until the beams caught a silvery splash on the surface of Lake Michigan. Then they quickly swung away. Muttered the crowd: "A dummy, of course...
...observed stretching a huge, soiled piece of cloth between two poles alongside a trench. A stovepipe was rigged between the trench and a hole in the fabric. Someone touched a match to a pile of kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries...
...after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib. of coffee each) have been destroyed- the greatest wilful, peacetime destruction of property on record...