Word: lindberghism
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...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...
...significant fact which few U. S. citizens realize is that today Ford is the biggest U. S. name in Europe, bigger than Hoover. Edison or Morgan, vastly bigger than Lindbergh or Stimson...
...medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...
...When Lindbergh got down in Paris (1927), U. S. aviation stocks began to go up. Wright Aeronautical Corp., especially helped by his flight, rose to spectacular heights on predictions of tremendous profits. Fulfilling these prophecies, earnings for 1928 were $2,400,000 against $900,000 in 1927. Last week, Wright, now 90%-owned by Curtiss-Wright, published its report for 1929. Its earnings had tumbled into an airpocket as great as the one which engulfed all aviation securities, for instead of the $5,000,000 that had once been hoped for, the report again showed a measly $900,000. Last...
...Chicopee, Mass.. H. William Lord, 56, suddenly awakened from an amnesia which had made him for four years unable to tell what was going on, found he had grown a long beard. When told about Hoover, Lindbergh, the Philadelphia "Athletics," and new size paper currency, H. William Lord expressed surprise...