Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
...Total Lindbergh profits taken from air stocks in six years: $187,838, excluding "business expenses, such as purchase of airplanes, equipment, office maintenance, cost of survey flights and many other items...
...clear the air, Col. Lindbergh last week issued in Manhattan a complete statement of his returns from the air industry, at the same time pointing out that he had sent the identical information to the Senate investigating committee last month soon after it turned evidence of the $250,000 "gift." Never, declared Col. Lindbergh, had he received an outright gift from any aviation company...
From TAT, Col. Lindbergh had received $250,000 cash with an invitation to invest it in TAT stock, which he did. Profits from the sale of that stock have been $195,633. From TAT he received, as technical adviser, $10,000 a year until it merged with Western Air in 1931. His salary was then fixed at $7,194, since...
From Pan American Airways, for whom he made exploratory flights around Labrador last summer, Col. Lindbergh received warrants to buy stock from which he profited $150,884, all of which he reinvested in the company with "several thousands additional." His salary from Pan American, only U. S. airline not affected by the contract annulment, has been $10,000 a year since...