Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millions of U. S. citizens have thrilled to the stories of the Lindbergh flight, written by the hero himself. Copyrighted by the New York Times Co., in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, South America, Europe and the British Empire, they were widely syndicated. Countless breakfast eggs grew cold while readers feasted upon "Lindbergh's own story," devoured the flight-tale as told in the first person by the flyer himself...
...that Colonel Lindbergh, the naïve, the non-commercial - the Lindbergh who carried a passport and letters of introduction with him on his flight-should have given his name to the ancient journalistic hoax came rather as a shock. Readers shook heads, shrugged shoulders, mumured: "Say, it isn't true, Lindy, say it isn't true." But, on reflection, they decided that, after all, it did not so much matter whether Colonel Lindbergh did or did not write his signed stories-they made excellent reading, they were presumably at least based on interviews with him, and Colonol...
...line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones, skillful pilot; Chester W. Cuthell, onetime U. S. Shipping Board counsel. It seemed likely that this group would form a huge corporation, would put ships in the skies to compete with the Bellanca...
...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...
...Shortly after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, of which Student Bellanca had no knowledge...