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...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne. spent last week flying their red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed monoplane around Labrador. From Cartwright, where they were guests of Hudson's Bay Co., they jaunted inland 25 mi. to Muskrat Falls, returned via Melville Lake. Another day they pushed up the coast 150 mi. until they found themselves in a soupy fog, then sat down at Hopedale. Mrs. Lindbergh exclaimed over the "wild picture of indescribable beauty" presented by Labrador's inland landscape. But, as nearly everyone knows, the Lindberghs were not on a sightseeing trip. They were in Labrador, en route...
Scouts. Col. Lindbergh, technical adviser to Pan American, had the job of inspecting prospective landing places, charting the upper air, studying the effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...
...physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left in his car in the path of a train when he refused to mutilate a chiropractor at the request of thugs who seized him. What to Do. The kidnapping and killing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. changed the law of the land. Because abduction across a state line is now a Federal offense (punishable one year to life imprisonment), the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation can and does now enter a kidnapping case at once. Last week's flagrant cases...
...biggest order this year!" grinned Curtiss Vice President T. P. Wright. ''The Hawks we are sending to China will be single seaters having the same type of nine-cylinder engine being used by Col. Lindbergh on his present flight. . . . We sold 24 Hawks to the Turkish Government last fall and several are in service in South America...
...wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come...