Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LISTEN! THE WIND-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-Harcourt, Brace...
...world's most popular writer on aviation is Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose North to the Orient has sold 250,000 copies in three years, has been translated into eight languages, and is still selling at the rate of 800 a month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give...
...Cape Verde Islands were hot, dusty, windy, dirty, and the Lindberghs were worried about the heavy seas which threatened their plane. Bathurst, in Gambia, was pleasant and clean and the English were helpful, but at each attempted takeoff the plane struggled, spanked along on the top of the waves, could not get free. The Lindberghs threw out extra tools, clothing, oil, said good-by to their hosts every day and returned shamefacedly to try again. When they got off at last the motor sputtered from an insufficient fuel supply, and Mrs. Lindbergh thought they were finished...
While the cables were flashing this from Moscow, Colonel Lindbergh was flying northward from Paris. He alighted in thick weather at Rotterdam, refused to comment...
Said Manhattan's good, grey Weather Chief Dr. James H. Kimball, the man who has kept a weather eye out for all transatlantic flying since Lindbergh: "In transatlantic flying there has never been as complete weather information available as that available here today." This was the cue for American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years...