Word: icelandic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne, took off from New York in their Lockheed monoplane for a two-month tour of the Labrador-Greenland-Iceland air route now being traversed by Balbo's Italian armada. The project is sponsored by Pan American Airways, of which Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser. From New York, where their plane was nearly fouled in mid-air by flying news photographers, the Lindberghs skirted the coast to North Haven, Me., there briefly visited their infant son Jon at the Morrow summer estate...
...soupy fog, then sat down at Hopedale. Mrs. Lindbergh exclaimed over the "wild picture of indescribable beauty" presented by Labrador's inland landscape. But, as nearly everyone knows, the Lindberghs were not on a sightseeing trip. They were in Labrador, en route to Greenland and probably Iceland, to help Pan American Airways decide whether or not it wants to try building an airline along that route to Europe...
...Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark it got exclusive rights to survey Greenland with a view toward ultimate operation...
...competition as was the case in South America where France and Germany were flying for a full year before P. A. A. got in. Nevertheless, like a wise eagle that scouts before it screams, President Trippe makes no rash predictions. He has not even committed himself to the Greenland-Iceland route, which is only one of seven possible channels across the Atlantic. But he confidently states that "any trade route in the world can be flown with the equipment now at hand...
...sturdy blackshirts jumped to their feet, chins held high, and chorused "Present." Also sad was the case of a lonely ground crew near Julienehaab. Greenland. For weeks they had waited there to give service to Balbo's planes in case they should choose to land en route from Iceland to Labrador. They never caught sight of the flying armada...