Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis (NR 211) to Paris in 1927, the world called him "Lucky Lindy." Last year when Col. Lindbergh & wife flew their Lockheed Sirius monoplane Tingmissartoq (NR 211 No. 2) around the North and South Atlantic, the Lindbergh luck still held. Few weeks ago Col. Lindbergh acquired a third plane with the historic license number NR 211. It was a fast little Monocoupe especially built for him in St. Louis...
Seagirt, N. J., Sept. 21--New Jersey will ask for extradition of Bruno A. Hauptmann, suspected Lindbergh kidnaper, only after state officials have made a thorough study of the case, Gov. A. Harry Moore announced tonight after a conference with state and county officials...
...Washington society with conversation, who has owned the great Hope diamond for 25 years, whose onetime husband once owned the Washington Post, whose collection of jewels is world-famed, who was swindled out of $100,000 by the notorious Gaston B. Means in an effort to recover the Lindbergh baby...
...Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute a young aviator designed an improved machine to wash blood corpuscles two years ago. described it in an article in Science, signed "C. A. Lindbergh." Of Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week proud Biologist Carrel proclaimed to friends in Paris: "He has become my best assistant in biology. The name he will leave in that science will be as illustrious as that in aviation...
...until the post-Lindbergh aviation boom did real success come to Sikorsky in the U. S. From his factory in Bridgeport, Conn., since then, has gone many an amphibian to the U. S. Navy, many a transport to Pan American Airways, many an air-yacht to U. S. tycoons. Two years ago his Russian mechanics built the world's first giant amphibian (S-40), the famed 40-passenger Yankee Clipper used on Pan American's over-water routes...