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Coolidge & Lindbergh...
Congressmen have flown-and Congresswomen. Cabinet members have flown. Governors fly. Great generals, admirals, bankers and philanthropists fly. The President of Germany flies. Why doesn't Calvin Coolidge go up? Our leader should fly with Lindbergh! Perhaps he thinks it would be too great a loss to the country if he crashed fatally. I think it would be a great loss, but President Coolidge pointed out himself that there are plenty of big men to take his place. As a matter of fact, if Coolidge flew with Lindbergh and they crashed, the loss of Lindbergh would dwarf the loss...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh is to have a new plane, built like the Spirit of St. Louis by the same painstaking builder, B. F. Mahoney, at the same place, San Diego, Calif. And, likewise, Hero Lindbergh is to be her only pilot...
Said Builder Mahoney: "Col. Lindbergh did not desire a racing plane. He wanted a close, cabin-type plane with a longer cruising radius than is ordinarily available." (The new plane carries two tanks to hold, in toto, 115 gallons of gasoline, enough for 920 miles...
Three months ago Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flew from the U. S. to Mexico as Ambassador of Goodwill. On an exchange visit, and by the suggestion of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, the Mexican Tipica Orchestra* came by the more sedate train route to the U. S. Last week Manhattan gave it official welcome on the steps of City Hall, listened to its playing, presented on behalf of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce a gold medal labeled "Music-the universal language...