Word: lindberghism
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...newsstands and restaurants of the Square, the Saturday Evening Post had plastered advertisements for its forthcoming series of articles by Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight of the twenties. Now, although Lindbergh's flight brought pride to this country, many of his social and political actions were shameful. At the high tide of Hitlerism he was active in America First, accepted a medal from Hitler himself, and lent his name to a number of totalitarian controlled organizations...
...Saturday Evening Post announced that it had bought the partial memoirs of Charles A. Lindbergh, in which the notoriously shy "Lone Eagle" tells the story of his life up to and including the transatlantic flight which made him famous. Title of the story: "The Spirit of St. Louis." Reported price...
Biology Student Jon Lindbergh, 20, second son of Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, docked at Hoboken, N.J., sporting a stubby beard. Jon was ship's biologist during the 87-day oceanographic cruise of the tug Kevin Moran, which scoured the Atlantic from New England to the Azores, covering 10,000 miles. Prize discovery, according to Columbia Geologist W. Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, was a mysterious submarine canyon, 250-300 ft. deep, winding 800 miles across the mid-ocean floor three miles below the surface...
...feel suspended in time for a week-on the older, sedater liners (the S.S. United States last month crossed in 3 days 10 hrs. 40 min., barely enough time to make friends with the deck steward). In 1927, a daring young man in a flying crate, name of Lindbergh, made his way from New York to Paris in 33½ hrs. Millions who have followed his route since then-immersed in mystery stories, poker or the semistupor of Dramamine-have scarcely bothered to note the once-broad Atlantic beneath them on their...
...Lindbergh's flight, and the publicity for Ryan's plane, should have established Ryan in aviation for life. But he missed out. After a scrap with his partner, he sold his interest in the company (which later folded...