Word: lindberghism
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...year 1931 pitched even Colonel Lindbergh into heathen waters; sent Mahatma Gandhi disgruntled back to India; faced Josef Stalin with ragged gaps in the Five-Year Plan (see p. 16); failed to produce a Fascist government under Adolf Hitler (potential Man of 1932). But who rose from obscurity to world prominence, steered a Great Power safely through 1931, closed the year on a peak of popularity among his countrymen...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the American Council of St. Luke's International Medical Centre at Tokyo: "I have no hesitation in saying that St. Luke's Hospital is the most outstanding American development I saw while in Japan." Whereupon the Council at once elected him a director, and Council President George Woodward Wickersham exclaimed: "Well...
Grounded by fog at Flagler Beach, Fla., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh declined an invitation of John Davison Rockefeller to attend church...
...again last week. Three days after the British Ambassador effected Hinkler's release by Brazilian authorities, who had arrested him for flying "out of bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel...
...going to retire? That's a good one! Lindbergh is the only guy who made enough off his flight to retire. . . . The day of money-making flights is past. Lindbergh was the one and only 'natural.' A man who knows was telling me how much that fellow made. It is unbelievable; the public has no idea. It's partly the hard times, of course, that killed the game. But the public seems to have lost interest as well. . . . Oh, I suppose I'll stick to aviation. I've had some offers...