Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight years ago, as Charles A. Lindbergh peered at the lights of France through the periscope of his Spirit of St. Louis, he dreamed of a huge airliner which would some day span oceans on regular commercial schedule. Last week such an airliner, final fruition of Lindbergh's dream, soared up from San Francisco Bay, droned westward on the first flight of a regular commercial schedule across the Pacific Ocean...
...great flying ship was the China Clipper, largest type of plane yet built in the U. S. Glenn Luther Martin spent three years constructing it in his Baltimore factory from specifications laid down by Colonel Lindbergh. At the China Clipper wheel last week was a great if unspectacular pilot named Edwin C. Musick, whose eyes, after 11,000 hours in the air, have acquired a permanent squint from staring at distant horizons...
...good terms with his men, Capt. Musick says little in the air, other than the necessary commands, prefers to sit in silent attention to his work. Typical was an incident on the first Hawaii flight to test the vast preparations for fulfilling Lindbergh's Pacific dream. At the wheel, Pilot Sullivan grinned: "Old stuff this. We've flown this route so many times in training I've recognized every cloud we've seen since leaving San Francisco...
...OnIy other woman to fly the South Atlantic: Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, with her husband...
...long now before she makes her appearance with a pair of wings, not the feathery kind that grace Gabriel and his cohorts, nor the horn-leathery ones of the Land of the Eternal Fire, but rather the modern everyday type made famous by Birdman Lindbergh and Flying Post...