Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow, is small, dainty and a poet. Nevertheless, during the World War she organized the first U. S. women's (relief) unit to go to France. When her late husband ran for the Senate from New Jersey she stumped the State for him. When her grandson, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, she was a tower of strength to her family's morale, later stood guard over Grandson Jon Morrow Lindbergh. Last week, at 66, dainty-sturdy Mrs. Morrow was chosen for another man-sized job: acting president of Smith College...
...from the year before. Boss of Goodyear is opinionated, poker-playing Paul W. Litchfield, who has tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner Dr. Hugo Eckener. In 1936 he wanted to nominate Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for Vice President on the Republican ticket. Last spring he urged the U. S. to barter (as it soon did) surplus cotton for a stockpile of rubber which a war would shut...
...Love & Kisses." These record flights, and the whole birthday program, were a masterful stroke of publicity for the Corps. Ably assisting in the stroke was Lauren ("Deac") Lyman, oldtime New York Times air correspondent who now works for United Aircraft, good friend of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Newsmen still found lacking, however, publicity for one phase of Air Corps activity more dramatic than any other. Lest it seem too warlike, the Corps is not allowed by the War Department to publicize the extreme accuracy which its bombers have attained. They now can guarantee to smack their targets as precisely from...
Kidnapping has dropped off proportionately; Mr. Hoover was able to report 154 solutions out of 156 cases pursued since 1932 (Lindbergh...
Ever since Colonel Lindbergh flew one across the Atlantic in 1927, most U. S. aeronautical engineers have been developing air-cooled, radial engines with cylinders raying out like huge wheel-spokes around a short, chunky crankshaft. But as power was increased, radial engines grew so bulky that they dragged on high-speed planes...