Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh used Gargoyle Mobiloil (Vacuum Oil Co.) on his flight to Paris. Commander Byrd is using Veedol (Tide Water Oil Co.) in his Antarctic planes...
...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, who has been teaching chemistry at the Woman's College in Constantinople the past semester, received last fortnight from the Turkish Aviation League a medal, with instructions to take it home and give it to her son, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Medal in luggage, she headed for the U. S. Colonel Thomas Edward ("Revolt in the Desert") Lawrence, Great Britain's most celebrated spy, reputed kinsman of George Bernard Shaw, arrived at Plymouth, England, last week from India, having traveled third class under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government...
...receiving messages from Little America, Bay of Whales, Antarctica-the copyrighted property of the New York Times and associated newspapers. Some of the messages are signed by Commander Byrd himself; but most of them are signed by Russell Owen, a crack reporter who distinguished himself during and after the Lindbergh flight to Paris by the accuracy, color and vigor of his stories...
...west coast of South America and the east coast of the U. S. are virtually on a north-&-south line with each other. Both coasts lie between 70° and 80° West Longitude. Down part of that geographical corridor started Colonel Lindbergh last week-from New York to Miami to Havana, thence across the Caribbean to British Honduras, thence through Central American countries to the Canal Zone- carrying the first trans-Caribbean airmail. The day he left Miami, Feb. 4, was his 2/th birthday...
From Panama it will be easy to extend airmail and passenger service into South America. Pan-American Airways, Inc., for whom Col. Lindbergh flew, announced that it intends soon to extend its routes to Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, Valparaiso and across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Airmail flown thus from Manhattan to Buenos Aires can arrive in five days. By ship down the Atlantic, Manhattan-Buenos Aires mail now takes 14 to 17 days...