Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — WAD AYA MEAN, "BLIMP?” [ARTICLE]

WAD AYA MEAN, "BLIMP?”

There are two kinds of aircraft, rigid and limp. A gas bag for altitude and an airplane fusilage for power is known as a class B dirigible. Popular slang proved its effiiciency when it put the two together for a brand new word and it stuck. Some day we will all see the country from above. I mean from a blimp. Just now I’d rather see the city from an Oakland. —Hugh Kirk.