Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While all the publicity world bates its breath, a Diamond Queen and a Girl Lindbergh count one for the money, two for the show preparatory to passenger rides across the seas. Air rivalry, a duel of the clouds, is the motif seized upon by the fun--loving tabloids...
...Voted down, 51 to 16, the bill to give Army Air Corps officers a special promotion list. (Charles Augustus Lindbergh had spoken for this bill; Assistant Secretary of War Trubee Davison has opposed...
Chairman Harold McMillan Bixby of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce knows how irked Charles Augustus Lindbergh becomes when he hears the song, "Lucky Lindy," by Abel Zaer. Last week, Mr. Bixby told that at a Lindbergh party in Manhattan, he and others sang "Lucky Lindy" at Col. Lindbergh on purpose. Col. Lindbergh made no comment. Next day, flying Mr. Bixby and another of the singers back to St. Louis, the Lindbergh plane dived, climbed, dived, climbed, dived, all morning. Mr. Bixby is a good air sailor but the other singer, Harry Knight, became "a rich green" with airsickness. Then...
...afternoon last week, each right was worth some $19. With 250,000 shares of Wright stock outstanding, the melon has a paper value of some $4,750,000. So stimulated, Wright stock jumped to $245, but closed the week at $202.50. On the day before Col. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, this stock could have been bought...
...miniature General Motors of the air-makers of the complete plane (fuselage, engine propeller, accessories). Founder Glenn Curtiss, no longer with the firm, is in the real estate business in Florida. Last week, Curtiss stock reached a new high of $192.75 and closed at $145. On the day-before-Lindbergh, it was easily obtainable...