Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upon nominal recommendation of Col. Lindbergh, its "technical adviser." He was in Los Angeles with his wife last week, buying his specially built Lockheed Sirius, an open two seater capable of 200 Lockheed m. p. h. He open wrote his personal check...
...herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty of Sir Wallis Budge-a sort of Lindbergh among Egyptologists-kept him from setting down the fact that for many years he personally contributed sixpence a week to buy tidbits of sole for Mike...
...heroism plus skill, 1929 was undoubtedly Richard Evelyn Byrd's in the popular mind, just as 1927 was Charles Augustus Lindbergh's. Through their Congress the citizens paid acknowledgment by raising Byrd from Commander to Rear-Admiral, an act unprecedented since Robert Edwin Peary discovered the North Pole.† But air-minded citizens might dispute Admiral Byrd's preëminence by bringing in Pilot Bernt Balchen, who actually flew the Byrd ship to the South Pole, or by pointing to Endurance Flyers Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forest O'Brien who kept the St. Louis Robin...