Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely you know that Lindbergh never flew from New York to Paris? He hired a double who took off from New York and has been hiding in Jersey City ever since. When the right number of hours had elapsed Lindbergh, who had been lying low in Ireland, flew across the Channel and the people of Paris who had never seen him before were completely taken...
Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen (Paramount). Taken from a story by Rupert Hughes, this picture harks back to the Lindbergh kidnapping. Miss Fane (Dorothea Wieck) is a widowed cinemactress wrapped up in her child (Baby LeRoy). Agonized when she finds him missing from his crib, she refrains for a time from telling the police. She arranges a rendezvous with the kidnappers but they are frightened off by the appearance of some casual motorcyclists. Miss Fane appeals for help by press and radio, even talks through amplifiers while flying over the length & breadth of California. Her words are heard...
...show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen, Frank Sullivan, Katharine Hepburn, the young ladies of the Ballet Russe, Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume ever held in the U. S.: 700 costume plates, plans, drawings and illuminated stage models, tracing the development of theatre art from 16th Century Venice...
...still later vice president. The next two years were banner years for Pratt & Whiney and for Stockholder Deeds's $40 investment. Pratt & Whitney engineers developed the highest-powered air-cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed into a market already on its way up to its 1929 crest. The U. S. Government bought practically every one of the 261 Pratt & Whitney engines made in 1927, about half...
...What is Col. Lindbergh's salary with...