Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flying was the business of Mazel M. ("Merry") Merrill, director of the Curtiss Flying Service, and Edwin M. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo Airport. On their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...
...significance of the tragedy is that Merrill and Ronne were well-seasoned pilots and that Lindbergh's Falcon was one of the most efficient of modern planes...
George Palmer Putnam, publisher of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's book, We, was so impressed by the success of that book that he said to his friends: "Find me a 'lady Lindbergh.' " Amelia Earhart was found. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Last week, she took Mr. Putnam for an air ride from New York to Pittsburgh. Landing at Rodger's Field, her plane struck an unmarked ditch, turned over, was wrecked. Pilot Earhart and Passenger Putnam suffered no injuries. Said Passenger Putnam: "The accident occurred through no fault of hers...
From Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh was piloting Banker John J. Mitchell Jr. to Chicago. As every Chicagoan knows, young Banker Mitchell's father had been President of Illinois Trust for nearly 50 years. Deep and abiding was the impression made by the elder Mitchell on U. S. finance. Himself the son of a banker, he became a power not only in Chicago but in Manhattan's Wall Street. His counsel guided such tycoons as George M. Pullman (Pullman cars) and Cyrus H. McCormick (International Harvester...
...these three facts-the rising bank stocks, the Lindbergh flight, the Mitchell-Armour alliance-it was possible to construct an arresting theory...