Word: lindberghism
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...Ford, 80, still brimming confidence, announced that at war's end he will take up the option Ford Motor Co. holds on the Government-owned Willow Run plant and build there huge multiple-engined, cargo-passenger airplanes "of unique design." The company discreetly hinted that Employe Charles A. Lindbergh's experiments "may influence the design of the new plane." The sky Ford of the future (small models have been built) is being designed to land in relatively small space, to operate at a fraction of present big-plane flying cost. It is to be "as positively safe...
...start as a cameraman in 1923, when he was hired by International News Photos at $9 a week and bought his first Speed Graphic with snitched "train money." In 20 years Samuel Schulman has covered transatlantic flights, big murders (like the Lindbergh case), national political conventions, revolutions (in Cuba), war. Last week, in a 234-page book called Where's Sammy? (Random House; $2.50), he told the story of his life. (The book was really written by International News Service's Bob Considine, who also "edited" Captain Ted Lawson's recent Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
...Salt Lake City's J. H. McKnight, a Mormon who always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...
...best of them all in Washington"; 5) "Wheeler is a good fellow, but he can't stand up to Nye"; 6) "Taft is coming along, but he is still old-fashioned"; 7) "Surrounded by a circle of advisers of the nationalist type, Lindbergh would make an excellent nominal leader"; 8) Colonel McCormick-"Dumb. No brains...
...glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy was watched by 4,000, including wives of the victims...