Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1930 Frenchmen Dieudonne Coste & Maurice Bellonte reversed the Lindbergh route by flying non-stop from Paris to New York (3,600 mi.). Last week two other Frenchmen, Maurice Rossi & Paul Codos, set out from Paris to fly non-stop to California (6,200 mi.) and thus beat their own world's distance record set last year (New York-Syria, 5,657 mi.). Their plane, built five years ago by old Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered...
...Langley Field, Va. from Newark one day last week flew Col. Lindbergh in the new Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from...
Next down the map is the "middle"' transcontinental route developed by Transcontinental & Wrestern Air ( ················), stretching from Newark to Los Angeles via Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Albuquerque. This, the "Lindbergh" line, is the shortest route from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only...
...arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money...
...them under the title Quatrains for My Daughter* she remarked: "The stuff of poetry is happy memories in the heart." Last week three new poems by Mrs. Morrow appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. They revealed unhappy memories in the heart, memories of March 1931 when her grandson Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped and murdered. Excerpts...